Martha Mond was born in 1919, as the daughter of Wilhelm Gabriel in Ebenfurth (Lower Austria), on the way from Eisenstadt to the birth clinic in Vienna. She grew up in Eisenstadt together with her sister Gertrude. After visiting the Jewish primary school, Martha Mond went to the grammar school in Eisenstadt, completing her A-levels in 1937. In the same year she began studying at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna. Nobody in the family could possibly predict what was going to happen to them when the Nazis seized power. Only a few weeks before March 1938, her father bought some vineyards in Eisenstadt. As a silent partner of the flourishing firm belonging to the Wolf family in Eisenstadt, he and his family were amongst the first to be banished and robbed by the Gestapo. The family hid in Vienna, was however discovered and imprisoned in the Roßauer barracks. The father was interrogated and was forced to sign to leave the home country. Via Triest the family was finally able to flee to Buenos Aires. Martha Mond began working initially as a seamstress in a fashion salon and also for wealthy families as an au pair girl. She later worked as a pattern maker. In 1944 she got married, in 1952 she visited Austria for the first time after 1938. Martha Mond died in 2009 in Buenos Aires.