Margarete buber-neumann biography of george

Margarete Buber-Neumann and her husband were members of the German Communist Party. They were sent to Moscow to work as translators in 1935.

Her husband was arrested in 1937; she never saw him again. In 1938, Buber-Neumann was arrested and charged with “counter-revolutionary organization and agitation against the Soviet state.” After spending two years in the Gulag camp Karlag, Buber-Neuman was handed over to German authorities during the period of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact.

She spent the next five years in a Nazi concentration camp from which she was released at the end of World War II.

“I had been a month in prison now and I was still left in ignorance of the formal reason for my arrest.

Apart from leaving the cell with the others for exercise and so on, I had not been outside it except to have my finger-prints taken and to be photographed, but every day from the stories o