Rosa Ruth Hamburger, née Walter was born in the Middle Franconian village Sugenheim on March 26, 1893 as the daughter of the cattle dealer Abraham Walter and his wife Babette, née Goldmann.

In September 1922, she married Heinrich Hamburger from Bad Kissingen, who had taken on his father’s butchery in Grabengasse, and moved to Kissingen. The couple had three daughters. On October 1923, the twins Else and Margot were born but Margot died only two months after her birth. On February 2, 1931 the youngest daughter Ruth was born.

After the death of Rosa’s father-in-law, who died at the end of August 1937, the Hamburgers moved to Göppingen in the middle of October 1937 from where they emigrated to the USA. Heinrich’s brother Alfred (now Adolph) who had been living in the USA since 1903 had travelled to Germany before and had entreated his brother to leave Germany with his family. He also got the necessary affidavit for them and took care of a place to stay in New York when they first arrived there. For the time being, the Hamburgers stayed in New York for one year before they moved to Heinrich’s brothers in McGhee in Arkansas.

While Rosa Hamburger and her family could escape Nazi terrorism, some of her siblings became victims of the racial madness of the National Socialists. Her brother Albert, his wife Milly and their only 13-year-old daughter Helga were deported from Bamberg to Riga Ghetto and murdered there. Her half-brother Isidor and his wife and daughter were met by the same destiny. Her sister Frieda, married Lamm and her husband were also deported and killed (A.Y. Deusel, O. Beisbart, F. Fichtl, Gedenkbuch der jüdischen Bürger Bambergs, p. 387-390).

Little is known about Rosa’s life in the USA. She died in September 1952 at the age of 59 in McGhee/ Arkansas, USA. Her husband Heinrich, who called himself Henry in the USA, died in Dumas/ Arkansas in August 1966.