Margarete Buber-Neumann
Margarete Buber-Neumann | |
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 Buber-Neumann, c. 1930 | |
| Born | Margarete Thüring 21 October 1901 |
| Died | 6 November 1989 (aged 88) |
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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 |
| Relatives | Martin Buber (father in-law) |
| Awards | Bundesverdienstkreuz (1980) |
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alma_mater, education.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-Neumann was 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 West Germany.