Ilse Baumgart was able to take her final school examinations in 1942 in Berlin. Although the Nuremberg race laws classed her as a “first-degree Mischling” due to her Jewish mother, she volunteered as a communications auxiliary with the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1943. She did not reveal her Jewish origins in her application. After the attempt on Hitler’s life of July 20, 1944, an extremely dangerous situation came about. Following an unconsidered remark in front of other women auxiliaries, she was denounced to her superior, but managed to escape. Her parents were living in South Tyrol at the time.
The daughters of friends of the family, Gitta and Maria Dubro, hid Ilse Baumgart in their apartment in Berlin-Spandau and provided her with food. The constant air raids were particularly dangerous. Ilse Baumgart feared her presence in the building’s bomb shelter might arouse suspicion. Fortunately, however, she was not denounced. Friends from Gitta Dubro’s youth group also helped by hiding Ilse Baumgart temporarily in their own homes. After nine months, they experienced the end of the war together. Ilse Moslé, as she was called after her marriage, worked as a teacher in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1945 to 1983.