Laura Walter, née Oberzimmer was born in Bad Kissingen on June 11, 1881 as the daughter of Maier and Fanny Oberzimmer, née Berliner. She spent her childhood and youth in Bad Kissingen.

In 1905, she married the notary Hugo Walter from Munich and moved to Gerolzhofen with him. One year later, their son Martin was born there. In 1907, the family moved to Hof where their second son Otto was born in 1907. Since 1909, the family lived in Munich where Laura’s husband worked as a notary for 20 years. In 1931, they moved again when Hugo Walter took on a notary’s office in Augsburg. After he had lost his employment in 1936 because of the “Reichsbürgergesetz” (Imperial Civil Law), the family returned to Munich.

When the situation in Germany got increasingly dangerous for the Jewish family – Laura’s husband was even abducted to Dachau Concentration Camp for a short time after the Pogrom Night of 1938 – Laura and her husband emigrated to the USA in April 1939. They first lived in New York together with their two sons Martin and Otto. Life in exile must have been very hard for them. Laura Walter took her own life in 1943.

Their children had left Germany early and thus escaped Nazi terror. The older son Martin had already emigrated to the USA in 1928 and worked as a hotel manager and a lecturer there. He died in 1987. The younger son Otto emigrated to New York in 1936. There and – after the war in Munich – he worked as a successful business lawyer. He wrote important books on international tax law and died in 2003 at the age of 96.