MILENA - The Story of a Remarkable Friendship [Paperback]

Margaret Buber-Neumann (Author), Translated From the German by Ralph Manheim (Translator)

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Product Details

• Paperback: 213 pages
• Publisher: Schocken (June 11, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805209182
• ISBN-13: 978-0805209181
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,068,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The story of a friendship in dark times, October 10, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MILENA - The Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Paperback)

Milena Jesenka was an ethically principled Czech journalist who in 1939 was arrested and sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Ravensbruck. There she met Margete Buber- Neumann another political prisoner. They became close friends, and determined to write a book about their experience when the war was over. Three weeks before D- Day Milena died. This book is the story of their friendship and of the life of Milena.

It is a very moving work. And it also has a chapter on the relationship through which Milena became a part of world- literary history, her her relationship to Franz Kafka.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tragic and Hunting Story, February 16, 2004

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Janina Rafalska (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MILENA - The Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Paperback)

Franz Kafka's great love, Milena Jesensky, was arrested in 1939 and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in Ravensbruck. There she met Margaret Buber-Neumann (author of this book), also a writer. A friendship developed and they made a pact: whoever survived would tell their story. Milena died in the camp three weeks before D-Day.The book is riveting: both in its depicting the pre-war life of Milena's family, her intellectual friends, and her relationship with Kafka as well as the horrors of camp.
It is surprising that nobody made a film about those two remarkable women; I suppose Hollywood can not be bothered; they are too busy planning for the production of something along the lines of "The Rise and Fall of Janet Jackson's Nipple".