Photos Tell the Story of my Grandmother Bianca Böhm

Bianca's Life in Photos

Bianca, or "Mami-omi" as we called her, was the boss.  What she said was the law. Nobody ever dared to contradict or disobey.  For most of her 97 years she ruled over her elegant central Vienna third floor apartment with high ceilings, overlooking the Wien river, the Zollamt, and the Radetzkystrasse.  She had coal fired heating stoves in every room.  Early morning she would walk to the central market above the smoky locomotives to buy fresh baked kaisersemmeln and salzstangen, vegetables, sausages and dark rye bread.  The market is a shopping mall now, and the steam locomotives were replaced by electric subways: U-Bahn, S-Bahn, and Stadtbahn.  Her apartment building was destroyed by American air raid bombs in 1943 but it was rebuilt and is still occupied by her grandson Georg Böhm and his 2 kids Milla and Oleg.

Bianca with her two kids Peter and Erna (my mother)

Bianca and Franz Böhm's house on Breitenfurter straße 24
 in Kalksburg, near Vienna, Austria 1928.
 The two ladies in front are probably her sisters Erna and Cia

Bianca with her two kids, Erna and Peter
Vienna, Circa 1931

Bianca's apartment in Vienna was on the third floor of the building on the left. 
The building was destroyed in 1943 and rebuilt.

A room in Bianca's apartment.  My sister Kitty still has that teddy bear.

Bianca, Erna and Peter in Kalksburg, Austria Circa 1929

Erna, Bianca, Peter and Franz Böhm in Kalksburg, circa 1928, Austria

 
Here is Bianca's timeline from MyHeritage