Margarete Buber-Neumann
German writer (1901–1989) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II. She was also known for having testified in the so-called "trial of the century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France.[1] In 1980, Buber-Neumann was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.[2]
Margarete Buber-Neumann | |
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Born | Margarete Thüring (1901-10-21)21 October 1901 |
Died | 6 November 1989(1989-11-06) (aged 88) |
Nationality | German |
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Citizenship | West Germany |
Occupation | Writer |
Years active | 1921–1978 |
Known for | Witness to concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Stalinist USSR during WWII |
Notable work | Under Two Dictators (1949) |
Political party | KPD (1926-1937), CDU (1975-1988) |
Spouse(s) | Rafael Buber, Helmuth Faust |
Partner | Heinz Neumann |
Children | Barbara Goldschmidt and Judith Buber Agassi |
Awards | Bundesverdienstkreuz (1980) |