Margarete Buber-Neumann (German journalist and writer)
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- Buber-Neumann, Margarete
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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Date of birth
- 1901-10-21
- Place of birth
- Potsdam
- Date of death
- 1989-11-06
- Place of death
- Frankfurt am Main
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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, she was turned into a staunch anti-communist. She wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators, which 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 she was handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
Buber-Neumannwas also known for having testified in the so-called "Trial of the Century" about the Kravchenko Affair in France. In 1980, she was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the West Germany.
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Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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Als Gefangene bei Stalin und Hitler: Mit einem Kapitel "Von Potsdam nach Moskau" | Paperback | ? | 1968 |
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- 2021-12-27