Dora Diamant

Dora Diamant is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933. This retention was against the wishes of Kafka, who had requested shortly before his death that they be destroyed.

Diamant was born in Pabianice, Poland on March 4, 1898, the daughter of Herschel Dymant, a successful small businessman and a devout follower of the Hasidic dynasty in Ger. After her mothers death around 1912, the family relocated to Bdzin, near the German border. At the end of World War I, after helping to raise her ten siblings, Dora refused to marry and was sent to Krakw to study to be a kindergarten teacher. She ran away and went to Berlin, where she worked in the Berlin Jewish community as a teacher and seamstress in an orphanage .

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