Eugene Bonzom was born in Marseilles, France, on October 2, 1908. There is indication that he lived in Paris as a child.

Before the war, Bonzom served as a reserve lieutenant in a train squadron. When war was declared, he became a lieutenant in the French 65th Infantry Division and was captured by the Germans in 1941. Following service in the French Army, Bonzom—by that time a commandant, the French equivalent of a major—became a French art expert in Austria. He investigated works of art and other cultural objects stolen from France by the Nazis, interrogated suspected dealers of looted art, and made inspections of known art repositories near Vienna and Salzburg. He located two Gothic wall paintings and a marble fountain figure from Großgmain, the home of Josef Thorak, an Austrian professor, and inspected the area around the baroque palace Schloss Klessheim for a chest of drawers from a French claim, however, he did not find the chest. Bonzom accepted many restitutions on behalf of the French government.

Eugene Bonzom died in Nîmes, France, on November 12, 2000.

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