Auguste Gehre

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Auguste Minna Gehre (born Liekfeldt ; born October 2, 1898 in Altwarp , † January 1972 in the USA) was a German-American Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Auguste Gehre was married to the worker Karl Max Gehre (* 1897 in Berlin ). They lived on Kottbusser Ufer, today Fraenkelufer, in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Their daughter was born in 1925.

The family doctor was the Jewish doctor Arthur Arndt, who also treated the daughter when she fell ill with diphtheria . The daughter survived, for which the Gehres were grateful.

With the beginning of the deportation of Jews from Germany , Arndt's life was threatened. The Gehre couple hid it from January 1943 in their apartment in the pantry . Auguste Gehre also made sure that his relatives found shelter elsewhere, with Clara and Max Köhler as well as Anni and Gustav Schulz also involved. With the people in hiding, they shared the food they received on ration cards .

After the end of the Second World War , the Gehres emigrated to the USA in 1948. They lived in Glen Falls, New York .

Max Gehre died in 1968, Auguste Gehre in 1972.

In 1988 Auguste Gehre and her husband were posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

literature

  • Gehre, Karl Max Otto; Go, Auguste Minna . In: Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (Ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, pp. 119–120, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Auguste Gehre (1898–1972), Social Security Death Record .
  2. ↑ a b Ingeborg R. Smith . In: Poststar.com of January 29, 2008 (English).
  3. ^ Max Gehre (1897–1968), Social Security Death Record .
  4. ↑ Righteous Among the Nations Honored by Yad Vashem (English; PDF; 271 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Listen, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gehre, Auguste Minna (full name); Liekfeldt, Auguste Minna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-US-American Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Old warp
DATE OF DEATH January 1972
Place of death United States