Frida (Frieda) Mosler née Goldstein

Frida Goldstein was born on September 15, 1891, in Berlin. She came from a Jewish family. Her parents were Siegfried Goldstein (born February 25, 1856, in Berlin) and Rosalia Goldstein, née Abel (born July 7, 1856, in Berlin). Frida had a brother, Hans Goldstein (possibly born on May 15, 1895). Her mother, Rosalia, died on December 20, 1940.

Frida Goldstein married the banker Kurt Mosler, who was born on October 16, 1890. From 1919 to 1924, the Mosler family lived in Lichterfelde at Lorzingstr. 4. The couple had two children: their daughter Traud was born on September 8, 1919, and their son Werner was born on November 23, 1922, in Berlin.
Kurt Mosler had a successful career in banking and insurance. In 1923, Kurt Mosler acquired a property at Rothenburgstr. 24 in Steglitz, at the foot of the Fichtenberg, between the Evangelical Matthew Church and the Botanical Garden near the Steglitz Town Hall. The plot extended from Rothenburgstr. to Waetzoldstr. He had a villa-like house built with two semi-detached houses, and in 1925, he moved into the right hand house with his family. Frida’s mother-in-law, Lydia Mosler, moved in with Kurt’s family at Rothenburgstr. 24 after her husband’s death.

According to an entry in the Berlin Commercial Register, Kurt Mosler founded his own bank and insurance company in 1929 at Königstr. 25/26. However, after the National Socialists came to power and due to the boycott order against Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933, the company was liquidated by January 1, 1934.  Kurt Mosler then continued to work as an independent broker and became a partner with Max Scheftel in a belt factory at Alexanderstr. 39. However, Kurt left the partnership with Max Scheftel in 1935. 
That year, Kurt Mosler attempted to emigrate to Holland to build a new life, but he was unsuccessful. He returned to Germany and in 1936 took out a mortgage on the property at Rothenburgstr. 24. He used the loan to renovate the house on Rothenburgstr. to create additional rental opportunities. He also used the money as start-up capital for the establishment of a printing company, which was registered in the Berlin address book in 1937 and 1938 as "Norm-Kleindruck-Vertrieb" at Wilhelmstr. 33. According to his daughter Traud’s statements in her compensation claims, her father Kurt was planning to emigrate to England at that time. However, in 1938, he was pressured under threat of concentration camp imprisonment to sell the business and transfer it by the end of the year. Kurt Mosler never received the purchase price.
In 1938, there were still two additional mortgages registered on the property at Rothenburgstr., according to land register entries. These were secured for the "Reich Flight Tax," which had to be paid for Kurt Mosler’s mother, Lydia, as well as for the widowed Gertrud Goldstein.

Gertrud Goldstein was married to Emil Goldstein, the brother of Frida's father Siegfried, making her Frida Mosler’s aunt. Emil and Gertrud Goldstein had lived at Im Dohl 47 in Berlin-Dahlem since 1926, but Emil Goldstein died shortly after. From 1930, the widow Gertrud Goldstein was listed as the owner in the Berlin address book. In 1935, the property "Im Dohl 47" was transferred to a new owner, and Gertrud Goldstein moved to Starstr. 2 b in Dahlem; in the 1939 census, she was recorded as living with Kurt Mosler at Rothenburgstr. 24.

Frida and Kurt Mosler were forced to part with their property at Rothenburgstr. in 1938. The value of the house was underestimated with the help of a broker and appraiser who allegedly found extensive structural damage. The property was sold in April 1939 to Max Notz (a wholesale importer of butter, cheese, and canned milk) and baker Georg Oberbach. 
Frida and Kurt had to vacate their house at Rothenburgstr./Waetzoldstr. by October 1, 1939. Together with Kurt's mother Lydia, they moved to a three-room apartment at Prinzregentenstr. 4, Wilmersdorf, on the second floor of the front house. Valuable household items – furniture, carpets, paintings, dishes – were stored with the company Kopania at Bergstr. 91 in Steglitz.
Possibly, Gertrud Goldstein also moved with Frida, Kurt, and Lydia Mosler into the apartment at Prinzregentenstr. 4. Her last known address was Güntzelstr. 17 in Wilmersdorf. She committed suicide on September 29, 1942.

That same year, Frida and Kurt Mosler’s children were able to flee Germany to England: daughter Traud in March 1939 and son Werner in late July 1939.

Frida and Kurt Mosler remained in Berlin – they could neither provide a guarantor nor show the required $100 to obtain a visa to leave Germany. Perhaps they did not want to leave Frida's mother Rosalia and Kurt's elderly mother Lydia, who both were now 80 years old, alone in Berlin. Frida’s  mother  Rosalia died in December 1940, Frida's mother-in-law, Lydia, died on July 29, 1941. 

On March 4, 1943, Frida Mosler, née Goldstein, was deported to Auschwitz and murdered. In the deportation list available at the Arolsen Archives, it is noted under her name: "Last message was received on February 28, 1943." Unfortunately, this message is not in the records.
Frida's husband, Kurt Mosler, had already been deported to Auschwitz two days earlier, on March 2, 1943, with the 32nd Eastern Transport and was murdered.

No traces could be found of Frida's brother Hans Goldstein.
Kurt Mosler’s brother Hans apparently emigrated to the USA and from there to Australia, where he died in 1939.