Auguste Gehre was a German woman who helped Jewish people during the Holocaust of World War II.
[2] She married Karl Max Otto Gehre who was born on August 23, 1897, and they lived in Berlin in Kottbusser Ufer.
He wrote in his diary, "[t]hey are now wandering about Berlin without homes, are not registered with police and are naturally quite a public danger.
[5] Prior to the Gehre's, Arndt's children, Erich and Ruth, had been subject to forced labor by Nazi Germany in 1942.
[5] Arndt was helped by Anni and Gustav Schulz of Neu Zittau, Brandenburg, a remote suburb of Berlin.
They grew vegetables and raised chickens that were used to feed the Schultz and Arndt family members who were spread out in the Berlin area.
[6] Max Kohler, a factory owner, took in Erich, a friend of his Bruno Gumpel (whose parents were sent to Auschwitz), and later Arndt's wife and daughter.