Moses Adam papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rita Margolis
Rita Margolis donated her uncle's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs, documents, and restitution paperwork for Moses Adam (later Maury Adams), originally of Przemyśl, Poland. Mr. Adam spent the war in the Przemyśl ghetto, in the Płaszów, Starachowice, and Auschwitz concentration camps, and was sent on a forced march to Mauthausen, and was liberated from Ebensee. Includes pre-war photographs of the family, his metal identification tag from Ebensee, an X-ray of Mr. Adam's chest immediately after liberation, a post-war photograph, extensive restitution files related to his health, and a transcript of a 1985 oral history interview.
People
- Adam, Moses.
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Starachowice (Concentration camp)
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Przemyśl (Poland)
- Restitution--Germany.
Genre
- Document