Most Jews that remained in the Grand Duchy were interned at Fünfbrunnen, a concentration camp near Troisvierges.
He was born in Troisvierges in 1813, the only child of the farmer Jean Adames and Marie Magdalena Wangen.
On 1 August 1914, German soldiers of the 69th Infantry Regiment disembarked at the town's railway station, violating the terms of Germany's use of the railways and hence violating Luxembourg's neutrality.