Martha Mosse

Martha Mosse was born in Berlin in 1884. After first studying music, she studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin, took her doctorate in 1920 and joined the Berlin police headquarters, where in 1926 she became the first woman in Prussia to be appointed to the senior police service as Polizeirat. Forced out of the police because of her Jewish origin, she went to work for the Jewish Community of Berlin and headed its housing advisory office, which helped Jews who had been driven from their homes find somewhere to live. She was deported to Theresienstadt on transport I/96, which left Berlin on 16 June 1943 and arrived on 17 June; several accounts give only the arrival date. In the ghetto she worked as an investigator in the detective department and later at the ghetto court. She survived, testified in 1948 at the Nuremberg 'Wilhelmstrasse' trial, served with the Berlin police again until 1953, and died in Berlin on 2 September 1977.

Survived.