Editing Emanuel Bronner (section)

== History ==
Bronner was born in [[Heilbronn]], Germany, to the Heilbronner family of soap makers.<ref name="db" /> He emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1929, dropping "Heil" from his name due to its association with [[Nazism]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Lubinski |first1=Christina |first2=Marvin |last2=Menniken |url=https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=134 |title=Emanuel Bronner |work=Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present |volume=5 |editor-first=R. Daniel |editor-last=Wadhwani |publisher=German Historical Institute |date=October 25, 2013 |access-date=May 28, 2019 |archive-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816233908/https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=134 |url-status=live }}</ref> He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1936.<ref name=":0" /> As he and his family were [[Jewish]], he pleaded with his parents to emigrate with him for fear of the then-ascendant [[Nazism|Nazi Party]], but they refused. His last contact with his parents was in the form of a [[Censorship|censored]] [[postcard]] saying, "You were right.&nbsp;—Your loving father."<ref name="sd" /> His parents were murdered in [[the Holocaust]].

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File:BronnerNaturalizationCertificate.jpg|Bronner's 1936 naturalization certificate making him a U.S. citizen
File:BronnerNaturalizationCertificatePhoto.jpg|Portrait from the naturalization certificate
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