Cilly Mann was born in Prichsenstadt on April 9, 1875 as the daughter of the cattle dealer Wolf Löwenberger and his wife Jette, née Amerikaner. She was the fifth of nine siblings. In 1900, she married the Kissingen butcher Lazarus Mann whose ancestors had been butchers for several generations. She moved to Bad Kissingen and gave birth to six children: Justin (*1901), Max (*1902), Irene (*1907), Luzie (*1907), Theobald (*1910) and Kurt (*1915).

Her husband Lazarus Mann was awarded the citizens’ rights of Bad Kissingen in 1905. He already died before the beginning of Nazi dictatorship on February 10, 1932 at the age of 70 and was buried in the Kissingen Jewish Cemetery.

The depressing experiences and economic difficulties during the Nazi Era were the reasons why on April 14, 1936, Cilly Mann moved to Hamburg with her daughter Irene and planned the escape to America. Her daughter Irene and her son Kurt, who had moved to Geisa/ Rhön in 1931, emigrated to New York a few months later in September 1936. In July 1938, Cilly Mann went on board the “Georgic” in Le Havre with her son Justin and emigrated to New York where her son Theobald (Teddy) was waiting for them who had been living in New York since December 1934. 

Her daughter Luzie Mann, however, had moved to Berlin in 1927 and from there was deported to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp in 1942. From Ravensbrück she was displaced to the killing facility of Bernburg an der Saale where she was murdered on May 8, 1942 only few weeks after Klara Scher from Bad Kissingen. Her brother Max, born in 1902, who had become a tailor and moved to Cologne, also became a victim of the Shoa, according to his brother Kurt (memorial sheet Yad Vashem). He was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and committed suicide there in August 1942. Obviously, he could no longer endure the agony and terror and ran into the camp's electric fence.

According to US Census of 1940, immediately after her flight, Cilly Mann lived with her sons Justin, Teddy (Theobald) and Kurt in a shared apartment in Manhattan and was naturalized as a US citizen in 1945. She died in 1951, few days before her 76^th birthday.