Although it was originally reported that Lilly and her husband sent off their children to Scandinavia but were themselves too late to leave themselves and were murdered by the Nazis1573, that information does not appear to be valid. The following is a rough translation of the following entry on her in “Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden 1810-2010: Sozialistisches Experiment und Erneuerung in der Demokratie - die Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1945-2010”:1575

Lilly Görke (1904-1992), the youngest child, took the shortest route. Buchhorn, who moved from Berlin-West to Berlin-Ost in 1953. She belonged to those women who were denied a scientific career in the Nazi era and who were lucky enough to escape their persecutors. Lilly Buchhorn studied Philosophy and Physics at the University of Berlin, and in 1931 she was a student of the logic and philosophy of mathematics at Heinrich Maier (1867-1933) and Eduard Spranger, and worked as a student referee (161). As a daughter of Jewish family, her mother was a born Cassirer, her not only the teacher occupation in the Nazi period remained closed. Initially, she worked as a private tutor, later she worked in a pharmacy. From 1946 to 1950 as a lecturer at the Vorstudienanstalt or the ABF, she moved to the pedagogical faculty. In 1952, she became a lecturer (in the GDR, only the male form was usual). It was not until 1959 that she received a professorship with a full lecture for didactics. She was one of the few female professors in the 1950s who had children (162).1575