Συλλογή Αμίρ Μωύς

Συλλογή Αμίρ Μωύς 

Moys Amir was born in Thessaloniki in 1912. He was a bedmaker and ran his own shop at 19 Valaoritou Street. He was displaced by the German occupiers on April 21, 1943 and imprisoned in Auschwitz II Birkenau, Auschwitz I, Mauthausen and Gusen, where he was liberated by American troops. He was married to Binni or Bienvenida Saltiel, who was exterminated in the death camps. His half-sister survived in hiding, with the help of one of Amir’s clients. After the end of the war he returned to Thessaloniki and settled in a house on Zaliki Street. Amir used to manage the photographic material from various events of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki. It can be seen from the material in the archive, that Amir was treasurer of Maccabi and that he worked for the Association for the the Relief and Rehabilitation for Jews in Thessaloniki. Source: Kounio - Amarillio, Erika & Nar, Albertos, *Proforikes Martiries Evraion tis Thessalonikis gia to Olokautoma [Oral Testimonies of Jews of Thessaloniki about the Holocaust]*, Thessaloniki, 1998, pp. 231-240. 

Συλλογή Αμίρ Μωύς