Max Schloss was born on 29th December in Ulrichstein in Hesse. He was a war volunteer from to , as was his brother Hugo. His brother Moritz died on the field of honour for the "grateful German Reich". Max Schloss lived at Markenstrasse 28 in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, where he also had his shop.
On 27th January , he was deported from Gelsenkirchen to Riga together with other family members. From Riga he was sent to the Stutthof concentration camp, and from there via the Buchenwald concentration camp to a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Bochum.
From there he, together with his son Lutz, managed to escape shortly before the end of the war. Max Schloss emigrated to the USA in He never really recovered from the tortures he suffered in camp detention.
Unbridled Nazi hatred against the unfortunate enslaved led almost daily to the most severe mistreatment. I myself was an inmate of the Kaiserwald camp and spent every evening with the comrades who worked in K-Werk 9. Thus I directly experienced the hardship of my comrades, which often exceeded my own suffering in its extent.
The tortures and humiliations to which they were subjected seemed so commonplace to them that only "special cases" were discussed among themselves i. Tired of their miserable existence, a number of prisoners escaped from K-Werk 9 in the spring of in quick succession.
