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== English - first draft==
'''Alma Aline Henriette del Banco''' (*December 24, 1862 in Hamburg; †March 8, 1943 in Hamburg) was a german painter during modernity. After being persecuted during national socialism for being Jewish, she died in 1943 by suicide to avoid deportation to a death camp.
=== Life ===
==== Family ====
Alma del Banco came from an assimilated Jewish family. Her father Eduard Moses del Banco (1810-1881) ran a retail business selling furs, pig bristles, horsehair and feathers for bedding, located at Deichstraße 16. Her mother Therese Vallentin (1824-1884) originally came from Sweden. While the family was Jewish, the children were not raised religiously. After her father died, her youngest half-brother Siegmund (1846-1938) took over his fathers business at 21 years old and continued running it, presumably until 1890. After her mother died, Siegmund became head of the family and also the main provider for his three half-sisters Alma, Fanny (1857-1923) and Eleonore (1862-1934). The siblings lived together at their parents' apartment at Katharinenstraße 20. Alma and Siegmund would continue to live together from 1919 onward, since they were both unmarried. They moved a couple of times, but always stayed in the Old Town and New Town districts of Hamburg, which at the time were home to three quarters of the citys entire Jewish population. Siegmund rented a studio located at Große Theaterstraße 34/35, which became a popular meeting place for artists and in which Alma lived from 1934 onward.
==== Education in painting ====
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