Emma Bonn

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Born in New York, Emma Bonn returned to the roots of the family in Frankfurt and turned to writing. The Nazis plundered it, today it is largely forgotten.
At the age of 82, Arthur von Weinberg was deported from Munich to the Theresienstadt concentration camp because of his Jewish roots.
The Frankfurt chemist, industrialist and patron, who was made an honorary citizen of his hometown in 1930, died there soon after a gallbladder operation.
It cannot be ruled out that Weinberg met his cousin Emma Bonn on the transport to the “showcase camp” in occupied Bohemia or in the camp itself. She, too, who had been bedridden for years, was taken to Theresienstadt regardless of her poor health. The 63-year-old writer probably arrived there on June 4th and died two weeks later. Her great-niece Angela von Gans, who has now published the book "Emma Bonn 1879 - 1942. Searching for traces of a German-Jewish writer", was able to find out in the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.

Before their deportation, both Arthur Weinberg and Emma Bonn were looted by the regime's thugs.
In the case of Weinberg, the Mayor of Frankfurt at the time, Friedrich Krebs, is said to have personally obtained admission to his villa Haus Buchenrode in Niederrad and to have sent Weinberg into the park with the words “Der Jud muss raus!” In order to prepare the documents for a forced sale of the property undisturbed to be able to. The honorary citizen was a Protestant baptized Christian - but that's a different story. Looted to the last mark
Emma Bonn was also robbed of her villa in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg and her other property. The SS man and Munich councilor Christian Weber forced Emma, ​​who had been bedridden for 16 years, to sell her property for 160,000 Reichsmarks, for which she was promised a right to live there for life. Of course, everything was just lies and deceit. Emma was not only plundered to the last mark, but also forcibly picked up in May 1942 and transported to the Israelite hospital and nurses' home in Munich, her last stop before the deportation.

Probably not all gentlemen and - meanwhile admitted by court ruling - ladies of the "Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Handel, Industrie und Wirtschaft" should know that Emma Bonn once lived in the Villa Bonn, the domicile of this elite club on the Palmengarten. Together with her brother Max, she had also owned the prestigious house designed by court architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne and sold it to the “Frankfurter Gesellschaft” in 1923. Irony of fate: cousin Arthur von Weinberg, who was vice president of the club for a few years, was forcibly expelled from "society" in 1935 along with more than 100 members with a Jewish background.
Both Weinberg and Emma Bonn belonged to that Jewish or Jewish-influenced Frankfurt upper bourgeoisie, whose male representatives as bankers or industrialists made decisive progress in the Main metropolis at the turn of the century and during the Weimar period.
The Bonn family is an example of this, above all Emma's father Wilhelm Bernhard Bonn, who had the "Villa Bonn" built on today's Siesmayerstraße between 1895 and 1897.He, who was born in Frankfurt in 1843 and attended school at the Philanthropin in Nordend, earned the money for this in America.
Frankfurt boys made their fortune in New York

There, after training at Lazard Speyer-Ellissen, a leading bank in Frankfurt at the time, he moved there, to New York, at the age of 19 to start at the sister bank Speyer & Co.
Four years later he was managing director of the financial institution and financed the construction of the “Central & Southern Pacific” and “Union Pacific” railroad lines - with money that was largely provided by Frankfurt Jewish banks

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Bonn, Emma Betty Charlotte Schriftstellerin Geboren am 05.02.1879 in New York, USA ledig
Deportiert am 03.06.1942 nach Theresienstadt Ermordet am 24.06.1942 in Theresienstadt (09. Tammuz 5702)

Eltern: Wilhelm Bernhard Bonn, Bankier in Frankfurt am Main und Emma Bonn. geb. ?

Geschwister: Richard Sir Max Julius Bonn, geboren 1877 New York, gestorben 25.03.1943 London

Zuzug nach München: Zugezogen von Feldafing, Am Schluchtweg 22

Adressen in München: Hermann-Schmid-Straße 7 - IKG Krankenheim (seit 01.06.1942)

Emma Bonn wurde nach ihrer am 17. Februar 1879, also wenige Tage nach der Geburt Emmas in Manhattan verstorbenen Mutter benannt. Ihr Vater, der Bankier Wilhelm Bernhard Bonn schloss die zweite Ehe mit Emely Heidelbach (Eltern: Max und Henriette, geb. Gans). Ihr Vater wurde am 16.03.1843 als Sohn des Frankfurter Bankiers Baruch Bonn (1810-1878) und seiner Ehefrau Betty, geb. Schuster, in Frankfurt am Main geboren. Nach Besuch des Philanthropin und der Absolvierung einer Banklehre ging er 1863 nach New York um für das Bankhaus Speyer & Co zu arbeiten. Durch sein Engagement in der Finanzierung von Eisenbahnprojekten wie der Union Pacific und der Central & Southern Pacific Railroads, wurde er bereits drei Jahre nach seiner Auswanderung Geschäftsführer des Bankhauses. Drei Jahre nach der Geburt Emma Bonns übersiedelte die Familie wieder nach Frankfurt am Main.

Werke: Die Mündung. Roman. Leipzig: Paul List o.J. Die Verirrten. Zwei Novellen. Mit einem Geleitwort v. Bruno Frank. Stuttgart: Strecker u. Schröder, o.J. Das blinde Geschlecht. Roman. Wien, Leipzig, München: Rikola, 1923. (Dass. Lepzig, Zürich: Grethlein & Co, 1930) Sonne im Westen. Roman. Berlin, Zürich, Dt.-Schweiz. Verlagsanstalt, o.J. Abkehr. Roman. Zürich, Leipzig, Stuttgart. Wien: Rascher u. Cie, 1934 Das Kind im Spiegel. Versuch einer Beschwörung. Zürich: Rascher u. Cie, o.J.