Metadata: Estate of Heinz Stefan Herzka
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- NL Heinz Stefan Herzka
- Title:
- Estate of Heinz Stefan Herzka
- Title (official language):
- Vorlass Heinz Stefan Herzka
- Creator/accumulator:
- Herzka, Heinz Stefan
- Date(s):
- 1932/2010
- Language:
- German
- French
- English
- Extent:
- 9 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Moving images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the estate of Heinz Stefan Herzka, a paediatrician and paediatric psychiatrist. It mainly contains textual records, including biographical documents, but also official documents such as those confirming his naturalisation. It also includes Herzka’s correspondence with his father, Hans Herzka, Manfred Beyer and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. The collection contains recordings of Herzka’s appearances on TV and radio.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in several deliveries between 2007 and 2015.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Heinz Stefan Herzka was born in Vienna in 1935. His family fled Austria in 1938 and found refuge in Switzerland. Herzka became a famous paediatrician and paediatric psychiatrist.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019
