Max Herz photographs and drawings, 1916-1918

PXD 1260

fonds

1916-1918

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

905012

81 photographs - 49 x 29 cm and smaller
2 drawings - ink: - 21 x 19 cm and smaller
1 drawing - watercolour : - 38 x 27.5 cm

Max Herz (1876-1948) was born in Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, graduating in 1898. He moved to New Zealand in 1903 where he practised as an orthopaedic surgeon. After visiting Germany, in 1910 he settled in Sydney. He became honorary surgeon for the State Children Relief Board and, in 1911-12, the outpatients' department of St Vincent's Hospital. On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Herz was naturalized, but in July 1915, he was interned as an enemy alien at Holsworthy, near Liverpool, and from 1916 at Trial Bay. During his imprisonment he was was director of the 'German Theatre' there. When the war ended he was denaturalized and his deportation recommended, but he was eventually released in April 1920.

Reference:
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 9, 1983

Trial Bay Gaol was established in 1876 as an experimental Public Works gaol where the inmates would construct a breakwater. It was closed in 1903 and then reopened in 1915 as a German internment camp.

Photographs of Trial Bay, internees and theatrical productions. One drawing is a birthday card and the other two relate to the theatre.

Forms part of the Max Herz Certificate of Authorisation to practice as a medical practitioner, 26 September 1903, together with translation from German text, at MLMSS 4562 ADD-ON 1765

Out of copyright: photographs created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Information transferred from pictures accessions register as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011

Pic.Acc.Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.6118 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Some photographs reproduced in Joan Clarke's 'Dr. Max Herz, surgeon extraordinary : the human price of civil and medical bigotry in Australia', Sydney, APCOL, 1976

Some identified on verso

Good condition