Alice Licht had to leave school in 1933 without qualifying for university, as a Jew. That meant she could not study medicine as planned, and instead trained as a secretary. She had to perform heavy forced labor from the spring of 1941, but was able to achieve her dismissal by feigning a stomach ulcer. Otto Weidt gave her a position as a secretary in June 1941.
In February 1943 Otto Weidt hid Alice Licht and her parents Käthe and Georg Licht in a storage room in Berlin-Mitte. When the workshop for the blind was betrayed in October 1943, the Gestapo arrested Alice Licht and others. Her parents then handed themselves in to the Gestapo. The family was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto and six months later to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Käthe and Georg Licht were murdered there. Alice Licht was transferred to the Christianstadt sub-camp of Groß-Rosen concentration camp. When this camp was closed at the end of January 1945, Alice Licht managed to escape from the death march. She experienced the end of the war in Otto and Else Weidt’s home in Berlin. In the summer of 1946, she emigrated to the United States.