Milda Voss

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Milda Voss (born May 11, 1894 in Riga , † September 20, 1964 in Berlin ) was a Baltic-German resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

Milda Voss was a member of the Latvian Social Democracy from 1917. During the German occupation during the First World War , she worked illegally as a member of the Latvian Spartakusbund . From 1919 to 1921 she was active as a courier for the Communist International for connections to Western Europe. From 1922 she was a member of the KPD and between 1922 and 1933 worked alternately in Germany and the Soviet Union . In 1937 she was arrested in Germany and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1938. During the death march from the Silesian city of Jauer to Görlitz , she managed to flee to the Red Army, where she was used as an interpreter for the Colonel General and later Berlin city commander Bersarin . She then worked as an office clerk in the Reparations Office.

Milda Voss died in Berlin in 1964; their urn in the grave conditioning Pergolenweg the Memorial of the Socialists in the Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde buried.

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SURNAME Voss, Milda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Milda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic KPD member
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1964
Place of death Berlin