Hannchen Eldod (also called Hanna in some sources) only lived in Bad Kissingen for a short time and was employed as a housemaid at the Israelite spa hospice during this time. She was born in February 1898 in Höchberg near Würzburg, the eldest child of Emanuel Eldod and his wife Miriam. Her grandfather, Samuel Eldod, was a merchant and treasurer of the Höchberg Jewish community. He died in 1920, almost a hundred years old. The Eldod family lived in a stately baroque house built in the first half of the 18th century (Sonnemannstraße 15).

 The "Talmud-Thora-School" founded by the local rabbi Lazarus Ottensoser, from which the "Israelite Preparatory School" emerged, was located here. Jewish pupils came from far and wide to be trained as teachers here after completing elementary school. After successfully completing the "Preparatory School", the pupils transferred to the Israelite Teacher Training College in Würzburg. Hannchen's father taught for decades as a religious education teacher at the preparatory school in Höchberg until he retired in 1929.

Hannchen grew up in a large family and had nine younger siblings. Willi Wertheimer, who attended the preparatory school in the early 1910s and was often invited as a guest of the Eldod family on Jewish festivals and holidays, gives us a brief insight into the Eldods' family life: „As the Eldod family was related to us, I was often invited there for Shabbath, Chanuka and also for Purim and the other holidays. It was always very festive, but also very funny, because the Eldod family had a lot of children. One of the girls, her name was Hannchen and she was my age, made eyes at me. I was far too serious and also far too busy studying to let feelings of love arise in me" (Willi Wertheimer, Zwischen zwei Welten - Der Förster von Brooklyn, memoirs of the former Jewish teacher in Eubigheim and Buchen in Baden Willi Wertheimer now William Wertheimer).

Religious education and social commitment played an important role in the Eldod family, which is reflected in the professional careers of the children, many of whom went into nursing or teaching. Hannchen Eldod came to Bad Kissingen in July 1926 and worked here for a few weeks as a "housemaid" in the Israelite spa hospice.

Hannchen's father Emanuel, who continued to live with his wife in Höchberg, was helplessly exposed to the violence of the National Socialists during the November pogrom of 1938. The furnishings of Jewish homes and the synagogue were destroyed and Torah scrolls were torn up. When the community chairman Emanuel Eldod bent down to pick up a prayer scroll, one of the Höchbergers stepped on his hands. (Courtesy of Judith Orschler, Höchberg community archive).

According to the census of May 1939, the 41-year-old Hannchen was registered in Höchberg at this time. A woman from Höchberg, whose mother cleaned the Eldods' apartment and the synagogue at the time, remembers Hannchen's farewell in August 1939: "Hannchen Eldod said goodbye to me personally. My mother [...] cleaned the apartment and the synagogue at that time. I remember my mother saying: 'Hannchen is down there, she wants something. I went down there, I didn't care at all. 'Anna, I have to go, I'm flying to England,' she said. 'Take your old father with you,' I replied. 'I can't, I only have a plane ticket,' Hannchen replied, giving me five marks and her black cap. 'So that you always think of me. I'm only saying goodbye to you because you were always good to us and your mother was always so hard-working. Then she secretly waved to my mother again and quickly left" (Roland Flade, Lehrer, Sportler, Zeitungsgründer, Die Höchberger Juden und die Israelitische Präparandenschule, p. 105/106; [Note: Hannchen Eldod probably did not fly to England, but fled to England by ferry].

Hannchen Eldod did not have much time for a new life in her new home. She lived in London or the surrounding area in the south of the British capital and died shortly after the end of the war in August 1945 at the age of 47. Her place of death is listed in the England & Wales 1837 - 2005 death register as Surrey, Mid Eastern, and she was buried on August 16, 1945 in Adath Yisroel Burial Cemetery in the London district of Enfield.

Hanna's parents were deported to Theresienstadt in September 1942 at an advanced age - her father was almost 80 years old - and only survived there for two months. They both died in November 1942. Hanna's younger sister Rifka (Ruth) and her tanta Recha, who worked as a nurse, were deported to Krasnizcyn in April 1942 and murdered in the Lublin area. The siblings Naftali and Sara were also victims of the Shoa. Regina (Recha), Simon, Moses and Eliyahu emigrated to Palestine and survived the Nazi era.