Nanny Bodenheimer, née Löwenthal, was born in Bad Kissingen on May 12, 1876 as the fourth of five children of the tradesman Hermann Löwenthal and his wife Fanny, née Frank and grow up with her parents in Promenadestrasse.

She married Hermann Bodenheimer in Frankfort, in whose business her younger brother Isidor worked. Between 1902 and 1910, Nanny’s four children were born in Frankfort. Very little is known about her later life. She and her husband succeeded in emigrating to the United States. Before their emigration, they lived in Den Haag/ Netherlands and boarded the ship “Normandie” in Le Havre in March 1939 which took them to New York. All the children could also flee from Germany in time and survived in the United States and Palestine.

Nanny Bodenheimer died in New York on May 30, 1960 at the age of 84, her husband who had been 10 years her senior had already died in 1951.