Siegfried Bach was one of the students of Realschule Bad Kissingen who came here from the rural areas of Rhön and Grabfeld and lived in Bad Kissingen during their time at Realschule. He was born on April 23, 1895 as the son of the cattle dealer Moses Bach and his wife Fanny, née Reiss in Unsleben, two years later his sister Rita was born. 

Siegfried’s sojourn in Bad Kissingen was short. In 1910, He changed from class 4 of Adamsches Institut in Würzburg into class 5 of Realschule Bad Kissingen, which he left in April 1911. During that time, he lived with the Hamburgers in Bachgasse. It may be assumed that Siegfried was a commercial apprentice in Würzburg and worked in Würzburg after World War I for a short time.

The unmarried Siegfried Bach lived in Unsleben in Hauptstrasse 33 together with his parents and the family of his married sister Rita till the end of 1937. Then he moved to Oberhof (Information by Prof. Dr. Hesselbach, Mail of May 5, 2019).

Siegfried Bach lived in Bad Kissingen again during the 1938 spa season. He worked as a ‚assistent cook’ at the Apolant Sanatorium before returning to Unsleben in September 1938. After the November pogrom, Siegfried Bach was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp until February 1939. He lived in Unsleben again for the following months before being imprisoned in the Bad Neustadt court prison, the Bamberg state court prison and the Hof/Saale court prison from November 1939 to January 1940. The reasons for his imprisonment are not known. In March 1940, Bach moved to Breslau, where he died in July 1940. (Information from Bad Neustadt registry office, email from 28 Nov. 2019).  

His sister Rita was deported to Krasniczyn with her husband and their ten-year-old son in April 1942 and murdered. Siegfried's parents were sent to the retirement home in Bibrastrasse in Würzburg in June of the same year. His father Moses died there after a short time, while his mother Fanny was deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942. She survived the hardships of the camp and arrived in Switzerland in February 1945 on a rescue transport (Himmler-Musy agreement). Her subsequent fate is only partially known.  She died in July 1949 (Mapping the Lives, census data from 17 May 1939, Bundesarchiv R 1509. (VZ261926)