Gerard Moss collection

Identifier
irn73133
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.389.1
Dates
1 Jan 1929 - 31 Dec 2013
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73133

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gerard Moss

Gerard Moss donated this material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.

Scope and Content

Consists of one page of typed testimony written by Gerhard Moos (now Gerard Moss) about his arrest in Munich on Kristallnacht and being imprisoned in Dachau at age 16. Also includes copies of official documents, an original wedding announcement, and testimony related to the experiences of Max Rosenbaum, originally of Munich, who was also arrested in Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the same barracks in Dachau as Mr. Moss. Also includes a biographical statement and letter related to the experiences of Dr. Maurice Schweizer of Euskirchen, Germany. Dr. Schweizer was imprisoned in Westerbork, then Bergen-Belsen, and liberated on a train by Troebitz.

People

  • Moss, Gerard.
  • Rosenbaum, Max.
  • Schweitzer, Maurice.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Munich (Germany)
  • Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Munich.

Genre

  • Document
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