Flora Böhm was born December 12, 1863 in Gliwice, Katowice County, Upper Silesia (today: Gliwice, Poland). Her parents were Iwan Fuchs, a merchant in Gliwice, and Helene Fuchs, née Graetzer. On January 31, 1886, she married David Böhm, a factory owner, born August 31, 1854 in Biskupitz, Upper Silesia. They had two children, Willy, born October 22, 1886 in Borsigwerk/Silesia, and Helene, born January 4, 1888 in Breslau, Silesia. Flora´s husband David died May 11, 1921 in Gliwice.
A few months after her husband’s death, she moved to Munich, where her daughter Helene lived. Helene was married in her first marriage to Wilhelm Stein and since 1925 – in her second marriage – to Prof. Franz Julius Rapp. Franz Rapp (born January 1st, 1885 in Erfurt) was a university professor in Munich and starting from 1920 director of the Munich Theatre Museum, In 1935 he was made redundant. In April 1939 he emigrated with his wife via England to New York. He was a professor at Howard University in Washington, where he died March 3, 1951. Helene Rapp died on January 29, 1988, a few weeks after her 100th birthday.
Flora Böhm first lived with the family Stern at Kaulbachstrasse 41 (January 15, 1922 – January 16, 1923), then moved to Solln,after that to Dachauer Strasse 140, and from September 1st, 1933, she lived at Leopoldstrasse 52 (one of the Munich “Jewish houses”) where a stumbling stone has been laid for her recently. On July 17, 1936, she moved in with her daughter Helene, who lived at Bauerstrasse 22. She stayed there for four and a half years. On November 1st, 1938, Elisabeth Heims (see article Heims) moved into the apartment of Helene and Franz Rupp as a subtenant. After the emigration of her daughter and son-in-law in April 1939, Flora Böhm remained in the apartment.
Elisabeth Heims took care of Flora Böhm. They took in other Jewish citizens in need and cared for them. So over the years fifteen people found lodging and help there. At the beginning of 1941, all of them had to leave this apartment. From March 21, 1941 to March 28, 1941, Flora Böhm lived together with Rosa Bechhöfer, Simon Blum, Max Steinmeier and Elisabeth Heims in the former apartment of Clarissa Haimann at Martiusstrasse 8.
Together with Charlotte Perutz, they had to leave the apartment at Martiusstrasse 8 on March 28, 1941. Flora Böhm was forced to move to Kaulbachstrasse 4, and then on March 19, 1942 to the Jewish retirement home at Klenzestrasse 4.
Her last stop in Munich was the Israelite hospital at Hermann-Schmid-Strasse 5-7. From there she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on June 3, 1942, where she was murdered on July 12, 1942. According to the death certificate of the Council of Elders she died of a “degeneration of the heart muscle” at the age of 78.
Her son Willy was deported from Berlin to the Auschwitz extermination camp on March 2, 1943, and murdered there.