Milena and Margarete

<p><b>A profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances </b><br><br>From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafkas first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bi-sexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish refugees. German Margarete, born to a middle-class family, married the son of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. But soon swept up in the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution, she met her second partner, the Communist Heinz Neumann. Called to Moscow for his political deviations, he fell victim to Stalins purges while Margarete was exiled to the hell of the Soviet gulag. Two years later, traded by Stalin to Hitler, she ended up outside Berlin in Ravensbrck, the only concentratio