Buber-Neumann Margarete

Definition: German communist and journalist.
Years of life: 1901-1989
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Genus. in 1901 in Potsdam (Germany). In 1921 she joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1928, she began working in the Berlin organ of the Comintern, International Press Correspondence, financed by Moscow, whose main task was to glorify the achievements of the Soviet leadership.
From May 1935 she lived in Moscow and worked as a translator at the Comintern. On the night of April 27-28, 1937, the husband of H. Neumann was arrested. On June 19, 1938, M. Buber-Neumann was also arrested. After being held in Butyrka prison, she was sentenced to exile in the Karaganda camp. In 1940 she was transported from Karaganda to a Moscow prison. After a month of imprisonment in Moscow, she was transported in an international carriage under guard to Brest-Litovsk, where she was handed over to Germany with a group of German communists. After being held in a German prison, she was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Ravensbrück, from where she was released in April 1945. She settled in Frankfurt am Main, where she was engaged in literary and journalistic activities.
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