Margarete buber-neumann biography definition

German writer (1901–1989)

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 a 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]

Background

Margarete Thüring was born on 21 October 1901, in Potsdam, Imperial Germany.^[2] Her father, Heinrich Thüring (1866–1942), was a master brewer; her mothe