Auguste Gehre

Auguste Gehre (February 10, 1898 – January 1, 1972) was a German woman who helped Jewish people during the Holocaust of World War II. She received the title Righteous Among the Nations on October 13, 1988.

World War II Nazi Germans deported Jews to concentration camps during World War II, an effort that was in earnest after February 27, 1943, when Joseph Goebbels realized that there were still 4,000 Jews in Berlin that had not been picked up. He wrote in his diary, "hey are now wandering about Berlin without homes, are not registered with police and are naturally quite a public danger. I ordered the police, the Wehrmacht and the Party to do everything possible to round these Jews up as quickly as possible." Arndt was helped by Anni and Gustav Schulz of Neu Zittau, Brandenburg, a remote suburb of Berlin. In the 1920s, Anni was a governess to the Arndt's children Karl worked for the Glens Falls Insurance Company. Gustav and Anni Schulz were also recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1988.

Popular culture The Invisibles a documentary drama film about the struggle of Jews, like Ruth Arndt, and the people that helped them, including the Gehre family. Survival in the Shadows (2002), written by Barbara Lovenheim, tells the stories of survival of the Arndt and Lewinsky families during World War II.