Milena

BUBER-NEUMANN, MARGARETE

Biographies & Memoirs

Collins, Harvill

Chronicles the friendship between the author and Czech journalist Milena Jesenska, who met in 1940 in a Nazi concentration camp as political prisoners for their anti-Nazi views

Arts & Literature

Seaver Books

Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love

Arcade Publishing

Book by Buber-Neumann, Margarete, Buber-Neumann

Buber-Neumann

Community & Culture

Arcade

A powerful portrait of loss, love, and survival in Nazi Germany. Kafka’s great love, Milena Jesenká, to whom he wrote his most passionate letters, was a beautiful, politically committed, talented free spirit. At one time Kafka’s translator, she later became a celebrated journalist. Milena took an early stand against Hitler, which she pursued with vigor after the Nazis came to power. As the head of a politically committed newspaper targeted by the Nazis, Milena was arrested in 1939 and sent to one of Hitler’s death camps, Ravensbrück. There she met Margarete Buber-Neumann, a fellow political prisoner, also a writer and opponent of Nazism. This book portrays a unique and remarkable friendship between the two women, a bond that helped them endure. They made a pact: if they survived, they would write a book together; if only one made it, she would tell the story. Three weeks before D-day, Milena died in the camp. Thus it fell to Buber-Neumann to tell Milena’s story. This book is a full biography of Milena, from her strict childhood in Prague to her love affair with Franz Kafka. By artfully and discreetly interweaving images of Ravensbrück with episodes from Milena’s life, the author avoids repeating the already well-documented accounts of concentration camps. She gives us a lesson in humanity and dignity, and an unforgettable homage to friendship. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

An astonishing account (and the only we have) of one woman's experience of labour camps under Stalin and Hitler This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political refugees in Moscow. In April 1937 Neumann was arrested by the secret police, and executed by the end of the year. She herself was arrested in 1938. Here Buber-Neumann describes the two years of suffering she endured in the Soviet prisons and in the huge Central-Asian concentration and slave labor camp of Karaganda; her extradition to the Gestapo in 1940 at the time of the Stalin-Hitler Friendship Pact; and her five years of suffering in the Nazi concentration and death camp for women, Ravensbrück. Her story displays extraordinary powers of observation and of memory as she describes her own fate, as well as those of hundreds of fellow prisoners. She explores the behavior of the guards, supervisors, police, and secret police and compares and contrasts Stalin and Hitler’s methods of dictatorship and terror. First published in Swedish, German, and English and subsequently translated and published in a further nine languages, this harrowing in its depiction of life under the rule of two of the most brutal regimes the western world has ever seen is also an inspiring story of survival, of ideology, and of strength, and a clarion call for the protection of democracy. Sales Points - A highly important testimony of a harrowing wartime experience and a hugely important social document - the only account we have of life in both Soviet and Nazi concentration camps.- Bears comparison to Those Who Trespass Against Us, another Pimlico Original about a Polish Countess's experience in Ravensbruck which sold well and received terrific reviews- Will contain 80 new pages of never before published material pertaining to the book translated by the author's daughter- With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

Historical

RANDOM HOUSE UK

An astonishing account (and the only one we have) of a woman’s experience of labour camps under Stalin and Hitler. Margarete Buber-Neumann was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935, she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political refugees in Moscow. In April 1937, Heinz Neumann was arrested by the secret police and executed by year’s end. She herself was arrested in 1938. In the book, she describes the two years of suffering she endured in the Soviet prisons and in the huge central-Asian camp of Karaganda; her extradition to the Gestapo in 1940 at the time of the Stalin-Hitler Friendship Pact; and her five years of suffering in the Nazi concentration and death camp for women, Ravensbrück. Under Two Dictators is harrowing in its depiction of life under the rule of two of the most brutal regimes the western world has ever seen. It is also an inspiring story of survival, of ideology and of strength, and a clarion call for the protection of democracy.

Pimlico

A powerful portrait of loss, love, and survival in Nazi Germany. Kafka's great love, Milena Jesenka, to whom he wrote his most passionate letters, was a beautiful, politically committed, talented free spirit. At one time Kafka's translator, she later became a celebrated journalist. Milena took an early stand against Hitler, which she pursued with vigor after the Nazis came to power. As the head of a politically committed newspaper targeted by the Nazis, Milena was arrested in 1939 and sent to one of Hitler's death camps, Ravensbruck. There she met Margarete Buber-Neumann, a fellow political prisoner, also a writer and opponent of Nazism. This book portrays a unique and remarkable friendship between the two women, a bond that helped them endure. They made a pact: if they survived, they would write a book together; if only one made it, she would tell the story. Three weeks before D-day, Milena died in the camp. Thus it fell to Buber-Neumann to tell Milena's story. This book is a full biography of Milena, from her strict childhood in Prague to her love affair with Franz Kafka. By artfully and discreetly interweaving images of Ravensbruck with episodes from Milena's life, the author avoids repeating the already well-documented accounts of concentration camps. She gives us a lesson in humanity and dignity, and an unforgettable homage to friendship.

POINTS

Milena, Kafkas Freundin (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Langen/Müller

En los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un gran número de personas de ideología comunista volvió los ojos hacia la Unión Soviética, baluarte de lo que amaban y defendían. Pero una vez allí, a menudo fueron acusados de espionaje o contrarrevolució

Prisionera de Stalin y Hitler (Spanish Edition)

Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.

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Milena

Milena

Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love

Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love

Milena: The Tragic Story of Kafka's Great Love

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

Milena

Milena, Kafkas Freundin (German Edition)

Prisionera de Stalin y Hitler (Spanish Edition)