Emma Bär was born on August 8, 1923. There is no record of when she was taken into the home of the Jewish Women's Association in Neu-Isenburg. Also, the sources given do not indicate whether Emma's mother named Flora Bär temporarily lived in the Neu-Isenburg facility with her daughter. Nothing is known about the identity of Emma's father and Flora's husband. Emma Bär was probably housed in the home because her mother had a slight mental disability and could not adequately care for her daughter.

Emma Bär left “Heim Isenburg” in 1934 at the age of eleven together with nine other children in a "Kindertransport" and was conveyed to Scotland. Emma Bär came to Glasgow in October 1934, where she was initially housed in Gertrude Jacobson orphanage in Langside. She lived there during the Second World War and worked on a farm in Annan, Dumfries, and in a home for refugees in the city of Skelmorlie in Ayrshire. Returning to Glasgow, she met Jack Katz, a Glasgow-born Jew of Lithuanian origin. Both got married in 1945. In 1963, the couple changed the family name from Katz into Kaye. They had two children: Alan and David.

Emma Bär was known in the Jewish community of Glasgow because she worked in several shops and delicatessens of Jewish owners, as Morrison delicatessens, Waterman delicatessens, and Geneen's Tobacco. She was described as a cheerful, and charming lady with a great sense of humor. In 1996, she lost her husband. Emma Bär died on September 29, 2010, at the age of 87 years.

Emma Bär had never known what happened to her mother during the Shoah. Born in 1892, Flora Bär mostly lived and worked in the district asylum in Freiburg. From there she was brought to the district of Reutlingen on August 18, 1940, and murdered in the killing center Grafeneck. She was a victim of the Nazi euthanasia program "Aktion T4". Flora Bär was 48 years old. The “Stolperstein” (“stumbling block”) was placed in Löwenstraße 1 in Freiburg in 2006.

Emma Bär had a younger sister, who was born on November 11, 1925, by name Erna Bär. No information about her biography and her fate during the Nazi period to date could be found.

This biography was created by information and texts, which were written by Michelle Kaye.