Inge Deutschkron grew up in Berlin. Since her father Dr. Martin Deutschkron was an SPD functionary and a Jew, the family was persecuted by the National Socialists from 1933 on. He managed to escape to England in 1939. When the Second World War began, his wife Ella and daughter Inge were no longer able to follow him.
In 1941 Inge Deutschkron performed forced labor in an artificial silk factory owned by I.G. Farbenindustrie AG. She deliberately injured her knee so as to achieve her dismissal. Otto Weidt then requested her as a forced laborer. Inge Deutschkron was employed in the workshop for the blind for around two years. On the initiative of the Gumz family, Inge and Ella Deutschkron went underground in January 1943 and hid with the family. Otto Weidt obtained forged papers for Inge Deutschkron. During the last months of the war, Inge and Ella Deutschkron posed as refugees. They experienced the end of the war in Potsdam. In the summer of 1946 they went to England, where the family was reunited.
From 1999, Inge Deutschkron played a key role in developing and founding the Museum Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind and the Silent Heroes Memorial Center.