Emma Feith was born in 1872 at Siegburg (near Bonn). Her parents were the jewish manufactured goods- and fur trader Abraham Feith and his wife Sibilla Levison. Her mother died in 1876 – Emma was only four years old.
After marrying Max Heymann, who came from Kamen (Westphalia), the young couple moved to Cologne, Kinkelstraße 9. Max Heymann was co-owner of a tailor needs wholesale (Betzinger & Heymann). The couple had three children: Margarete (1899-1990); Fritz (1902-1969) und Sibilla Gertrud (1904-1975). Max Heymann died 10. Juli 1934 and was buried in the jewish cemetry of Cologne-Bocklemünd. In May 1939 Emma Heymann emigrated to the Netherlands with her youngest daughter Trude.
All children survived the Holocaust. Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein (later Grete Marks) became a famous ceramic artist in the 1920ies. She studied at the Bauhaus school of art and design in Weimar, moved to Berlin and established the Haël Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik. In 1936 she left Nazi Germany, fled to England.
Learn more about Emma`s daughter: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/arts/02iht-design02.html
In September 2018 the German Artist Gunter Demnig layed two “Stolpersteine” in order to commemorate Emma and Margarete as victims of Nazi-Germany (see picture). They are in front of the home of the Heymann-Familiy at Kinkelstraße 9, Cologne. In 2019 Demnig also layed Stolpersteine for Trude, Fritz and his son Michael, who is living in Israel.
Stolpersteine for Emma Heymann-Feith and Margarete Heymann
Added by the Editors for Ute Reuschenberg M.A.