Emma Marum was born Emma Esther Frank in Estenfeld near Würzburg on 5 March 1857. In 1887 she married the merchant Simon Marum from Sprendlingen. After his death, she moved from Bingen to Mutterstadt in 1927, where her daughter Amalie Dellheim lived with her family. Emma lived at Dannstadter Straße 15, in a house rented from her son-in-law Julius Dellheim and later owned by the Marum family. Of her children, Markus emigrated to Brazil, Alfred died as a lieutenant in the First World War, and Wilhelm was imprisoned in Dachau after the November pogrom before later being deported to Auschwitz. On 22 October 1940 Emma Marum was deported from Mutterstadt to Gurs. She died there on 11 December 1940 and was given grave stone no. 350. At 83, she was the oldest Jewish victim from Mutterstadt.
