Adolf (Amram) Kurzweil was born in Würzburg on August 30, 1920, as the third child of Moses Kurzweil and Lina née Finke. His father, who came from Bratislawa (then Hungary, today Slovakia), held the office of cantor and shochet in the Franconian community of Mönchsroth at that time. Adolf also had three brothers: Walter (*1915), Isidor (*1918) and Theo (*1926).

In March 1921, the family of five moved to Bad Kissingen, where Adolf's father took over the position of cantor and shochet. The family lived here in the Jewish Community House on Promenadestrasse (then Maxstrasse 10). The children received, as his brother Isi recalled, "a certain military, albeit strictly religious education," which can certainly be explained by the professional career of their father, who had been an officer in the Imperial and Royal Army. 

In August 1924, the Kurzweil family left the Franconian spa town again, because Adolf's father took up a position as cantor and shochet in Treuchtlingen in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, which he held until 1938.

The family lived there in the Uhlengasse in the front building of the synagogue, which was called the "Judenschule" and was traditionally the home of the cantor of the community.

The further course of Adolf Kurzweil's life is only partially known. He moved to Frankfurt/Main in May 1935, perhaps to continue his schooling, and lived there at Röderbergweg 36 with his uncle Michael Kurzweil. After the November pogrom in 1938, he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. The mistreatment he experienced there strengthened his decision to leave Germany as quickly as possible, and so in the spring of 1939 he emigrated to Palestine, where his older brothers Walter and Isi were already living.

Little is known about his further life. Adolf Kurzweil called himself Amram in Israel. He married Sigrid Seckbach, with whom he had two children. In 1984, together with his brother Isi, he once again visited Treuchtlingen, the town where both of them had spent their childhood.

Amram Kurzweil died in February 2002 at the age of 81.