She published on the mastaba chapel of Hetepherakhty in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands, and died a Holocaust victim.

[5] In September 1938 she gave a lecture on the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhty, an ancient Egyptian monument dating to the Old Kingdom, at the 20th International Congress of Orientalists in Brussels, titled 'Einige Bemerkungen zur Leidener Mastaba', illustrated with lantern slides.

[11] In January 1945, when Auschwitz was evacuated before the arrival of Russian forces, Mohr must have been sent with other prisoners to Gross-Rosen concentration camp; an eyewitness saw here in the hospital there.

According to official records Herta Mohr died in Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, the date of the liberation and thus the end of this concentration camp.

[15] In February 2024, Leiden University's Faculty of Humanities announced that a newly renovated building was named after Herta Mohr.