Meier Black

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Meier Black

Meier Schwarz (born January 28, 1926 in Nuremberg ; died January 12, 2022 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli hydrobiologist .

Life

Meier Schwarz was born to Jewish parents in Nuremberg. His father, the businessman Ludwig Schwarz (born in Egenhausen/Ansbach ), was an officer in the First World War and bearer of the Iron Cross, first class , and head of the Jewish community " Adass Jisroel ". He was murdered by the Nazis in September 1937 . His mother, Meta née Stern (born in Wiesenbach/Rothenburg ), died in 1940 from a lack of medication. His only brother Joseph was the Hachshara leader in Neuendorf near Fürstenwalde and was born in 1943 inAuschwitz murdered.

After the pogrom night in 1938 , the family managed to organize emigration for Meier Schwarz with a Kindertransport to Jerusalem. There he was admitted to a boarding school. At the age of 15 he co-founded Kibbutz Chafetz Chaim and was actively involved in the underground paramilitary organization Haganah .

At the age of 21 he was commander on the Ocean Vigour , which brought some of the Exodus passengers to Germany as part of Operation Oasis . Previously in France he had helped bring Holocaust survivors to the Exodus .

He then worked as an educator and worked in agriculture. He spent 20 years in Kibbutz Hafez Haiyim and another 14 years in Petah Tikvah . From 1973 he lived and worked in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In 1952, Meier Schwarz married Mirjam, who was born in Lodz . She too was the sole survivor of her family. Together they had seven children.

Meier Schwarz died in Jerusalem on January 12, 2022, a few days before he was 96 years old.

academic career

His academic achievements include the development of hydroponics ( English soilless cultures ) , which allows minimal irrigation of plants in desert areas . In this context, he undertook a doctorate in plant physiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He provided consulting abroad, including Germany and the United States (for NASA ).

Schwarz has served as President of the International Society for Soilless Culture (ISOSC), Founder of the Science Department for Middle School Teacher Training at Jerusalem College and Technology College , and President of the International Association of Religious Scholars. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Haifa University . As a member of the Association of Israeli Holocaust Survivors' Organizations, he represented the surviving German Jews and was chairman of the CENTRA association, which represented German-Jewish immigrants to Israel in the years 1930-1950. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial . As director of the Synagogue Memorial and House of Ashkenaz in Jerusalem, he was actively involved in the work on the synagogue memorial book series from 1988. Using original documents, he documented the former Jewish community in Nuremberg and compiled a list with the names of the Jews deported from Nuremberg.

publications

  • 70 scientific reports and four books
  • Commemorative publication of "Adas Israel" Nuremberg on the occasion of the inauguration of the synagogue 100 years ago and its destruction in the pogrom night 64 years ago. Jerusalem 2002.
  • with Katrin Bielefeldt: The synagogue seeker: memoirs between Nuremberg and Palestine. Sandberg, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-930699-48-3 .

awards

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ מאיר שוורץ הלך לעולמו. In: inn.co.il. 16 January 2022, retrieved 22 January 2022 (Hebrew, obituary on the Israeli news portal Arutz Sheva website ).
personal data
SURNAME Black, Meier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES black, m
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli hydrobiologist
BIRTH DATE January 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Jerusalem , Israel