Max Turkheimer, son of Moses Turkheimer and Rosa Odenheimer was born in Muenzesheim in Germany on November 19, 1878. Arrested in Lenno (Como), he was interned in Fossoli concentration camp in Emilia-Romagna, as was Primo Levi. He was deported to Auschwitz on 26/06/1944. He did not survive the Shoah.