Flora Wolff lived in Berlin from 1917 and worked as a head clerk for a real estate company in Berlin. From the start of 1942, she had to perform forced labor in a factory. Her severely ill husband Kurt Wolff was deported from a care home to Sobibór extermination camp in 1942.
On February 12, 1943, neighbors warned Flora Wolff the Gestapo had driven past her building in Berlin. She fled to Berlin-Schöneberg to her friend and former neighbor, the dressmaker Margrit Dobbeck, who hid her until July 1943. When Dobbeck was reported to the police for harboring Jews, her neighbor Philipp Schmitt took Wolff in.
Flora Wolff left Berlin shortly after and hid with Dobbeck’s sister-in-law in Wittenberg. At around the same time, Margrit Dobbeck returned to her hometown of Mulhouse in Alsace. Flora Wolff followed her in August 1943. She was initially housed with a nephew of Dobbeck’s. Then she moved into Dobbeck’s home in Mulhouse, where she hid with other persecuted Jews until their liberation.
After the war, Flora Wolff emigrated to British Mandate Palestine.
Gertrud and Emil Stargardter (No. 2 and 3) with their rescuer Margrit Dobbeck (6) and two other persecuted Jews, presumably Flora Wolff and Hertha Blumenthal (4 and 7), Mulhouse, around 1944. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
