Memorial Plaque for Dr. Theodor Herz

The commemorative plaque, unveiled on 19 October 2019 and mounted at the municipal office in Piesendorf, remembers Theodor Herz, the local physician who was forced to leave the community after the “Anschluss”. Theodor Herz was born on 16 April 1891 in Vienna, where he also completed his medical studies in June 1915. Between 1919 and 1938, he practiced as a salaried physician in the community of Piesendorf; with the aim of prohibiting Jewish physicians from practicing their profession and thereby depriving them of their means of subsistence, they were stripped of their medical licenses – so also Theodor Herz. Together with his wife Rosa and their daughter Martha, he fled to Argentina, where he was only allowed to practice medicine after overcoming bureaucratic obstacles. Theodor Herz died in 1973 in the city of Posadas, located in the north of Argentina.