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An account of the friendship of two internees of a concentration camp, Margarete Buber-Neumann and Milena Jesenska. In part a biography of Milena, this book is also about a pact: if both survived they would write a book about their experiences, otherwise the remaining one would tell their story.

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Milena by Margarete Buber-Neumann

Margaret Buber-Neumann, a Prussian writer and journalist and Milena Jesenska, a Czech journalist and who was for two years Franz Kafka's lover, met in Ravensbruech concentration camp in 1940 and survived together for four terrible years. Although in part a biography of Milena, this book is in far larger part about a remarkable pact: if both survived the camp, the two would write a book together; if only one made it, she would tell their story. Three months before D Day, Milena Jesenska died. Thus it fell to Margarete Buber-Neumann to recount those years. This book was a best-seller in France and was awarded a prize for the best foreign book of the year.
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ISBN 13 9780002725262
ISBN 10 0002725266
Title Milena
Author Margarete Buber-Neumann
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1989-01-05
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.