Milena : the story of a remarkable friendship
Buber-Neumann, Margarete , 1901-1989
Milena : the story of a remarkable friendship / Margarete Buber-Neumann ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim - New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books , [1989], c1977. - vii, 213 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Kafkas Freundin Milena. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Seaver Books : Distributed by Holt, c1988.
Until now, Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) has been known outside Czechoslovakia only as the recipient of Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. But as one soon discovers, Milena (which means ``loving one'') was an innovative journalist, author (The Way to Simplicity), underground political leader and intimate friend of creative intellectuals in Vienna and Prague. Buber-Neumann, a former German Communist who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag and turned over to the Nazis in 1941, met her at Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Milena, another disillusioned ex-Communist, was also incarcerated. Milena, the heartbreaking, inspiring story of their intense four-year friendship, introduces us to two indomitable women of nobility and courage, as well as describing SS murders, tortures and mutilations by experimentation. Their deep friendship, an open protest against the humiliation imposed on them, succeeded in mitigating ``the unbearable reality.''
9780805209181
88043283
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Jersenká, Milena , 1896-1944
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Authors, Austrian---20th century----Biography
World War----Prisoners and Prison, German----1939-1945
Journalists----Czechoslavakia----Biography
PT2621.A26 / Z64613 1989
92 JES
Milena : the story of a remarkable friendship / Margarete Buber-Neumann ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim - New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books , [1989], c1977. - vii, 213 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Kafkas Freundin Milena. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Seaver Books : Distributed by Holt, c1988.
Until now, Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) has been known outside Czechoslovakia only as the recipient of Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena. But as one soon discovers, Milena (which means ``loving one'') was an innovative journalist, author (The Way to Simplicity), underground political leader and intimate friend of creative intellectuals in Vienna and Prague. Buber-Neumann, a former German Communist who had been imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag and turned over to the Nazis in 1941, met her at Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Milena, another disillusioned ex-Communist, was also incarcerated. Milena, the heartbreaking, inspiring story of their intense four-year friendship, introduces us to two indomitable women of nobility and courage, as well as describing SS murders, tortures and mutilations by experimentation. Their deep friendship, an open protest against the humiliation imposed on them, succeeded in mitigating ``the unbearable reality.''
9780805209181
88043283
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Jersenká, Milena , 1896-1944
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Authors, Austrian---20th century----Biography
World War----Prisoners and Prison, German----1939-1945
Journalists----Czechoslavakia----Biography
PT2621.A26 / Z64613 1989
92 JES
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