At the beginning of the Nazi regime, Gitta Dubro was 13 years old and active in a Catholic youth group, which continued meeting in secret after being banned in 1935. The group members were arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 but released after a week, when no evidence could be produced against them.
In July 1944 Gitta’s friend Ilse Baumgart, who was classed by the Nuremberg race laws as a “Mischling,” came under great threat. Gitta and her sister Maria took her into their home in Berlin-Spandau and provided her with food for nine months. They kept this secret from their parents, who were living elsewhere with their two younger daughters.
After the war Gitta Dubro became a journalist and took part in the 1945/46 Nuremberg trial as an observer. She and her husband were arrested in East Berlin as alleged spies in 1950 and imprisoned for years. In 1986 Gitta Bauer was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, along with (posthumously) her sister Maria Schwelien.