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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday,. January 2, 1981
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Resettlement Services Cites Herz on 90th
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Walter Herz was honored
by the Resettlement Service
at its last board meeting on
the occasion of his 90th
birthday.
Edith Frank, president of
RS, presented him with a
plaque "in recognition of his
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years of dedicated service as
an officer and board
member of Resettlement
Service from 1948 to 1979."
Ernest Gans, a refugee
from Hitlerism, recalled the
years in Germany when
Herz, his wife Erna, and
their two daughters, Mar-
got and Ellen, lived in Be-
rlin. Herz was graduated
from a well known weaving
institute in the city of Kre-
feld, famous for the man-
ufacture of fine silk textiles.
He was a successful
businessman in his field,
but gradually the Nazi
terror made life for Jews
in Germany intolerable.
In November 1938, on the
notorious "Kris-
tallnacht," the Gestapo
ordered the arrest of all
Jewish men in order to
send them to concentra-
tion camps. Fortunately,
the superintendent in the
building where the Herz
family lived told the
police that there were no
Jews in the building. This
saved Herz's life.
He and his wife went into
hiding and sent their
daughters to London. Later
the Herzes escaped and
were reunited with their
children in England, where
they shared a small apart-
ment with another refugee
couple from Berlin.
With the help of the late
Fred Butzel, a Detroit
Jewish communal leader,
who also was a cousin of
Erna Herz's father, ar-
rangements were made for
them to leave for the U.S.
Herz and another immig-
rant from Germany opened
a slipcovers store on Dexter
in Detroit. They expanded
by doing upholstering work
and then set up "Walter
Herz Interiors" on Livernois
in Detroit as an interior de-
corating firm. In 1970, they
moved to their own building
on Northwestern Highway.
Herz was • active after
his arrival in the U.S. in
helping other refugees.
He became president of
the Self Help group, de-
voted to helping those
who had escaped the
Holocaust to find shelter
and employment. He
hired several of them in
his own business.
He was asked by Mr. But-
zel to serve on the RS board:
He had served as treasurer
of the RS board from 1954 to
1958 and as vice president
in 1959.
Attending, the reception
accorded -Ifini...;•by the RS
board were hiS daughters,
Mrs. William Kahn and
Mrs. Henry Demant.
Samuel Lerner, executive
director of RS, lauded Herz's
contributions to Resettle-
ment Service.
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