Sonja Friedmann-Wolf

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Sonja Friedmann-Wolf (* 1923 in Berlin ; † 1986 in Tel Aviv ) was a German author .

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Sonja Wolf was the daughter of Lothar Wolf and Martha Ruben-Wolf . In 1933 she emigrated with her parents and two years younger brother Walter to the Soviet Union via Lugano and Paris and came to Moscow in 1934 . The children were initially placed in a children's home in Ivanovo and later returned to their parents. After her father was sentenced to death in 1938 as an alleged “Trotskyist Gestapo spy” and her mother committed suicide in 1939, Sonja Wolf became addicted to alcohol at the age of 17. She became an informant for the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs . Because of the self-knowledge of her involvement in the Stalinist system , she wanted to take her own life, but was saved by her brother.

In 1941 she and her brother were deported to Karaganda in Kazakhstan . Her brother was later drafted into the Labor Army and in 1943 the Red Army ; he fell at the front in 1943.

Sonja Wolf married the Zionist Israel Friedmann from Lithuania in 1942 and had a daughter in 1944. In 1948 she came to live with her husband and daughter in Vilnius . There she carried out the rehabilitation of her father. In doing so, she sought help from Lion Feuchtwanger , who had already stood up for her father at the attorney general and with whom she exchanged letters until his death in 1958 .

In 1958 the family first left for East Berlin , after four months they went to West Berlin and from there emigrated to Israel . It was there that Sonja Friedmann-Wolf began to write down her memoirs; In 1963 she completed the manuscript. However, their offers to German publishers were rejected.

After her husband's death in 1972, she trained as a medical podiatrist in Germany and opened a practice in Tel Aviv in 1974. In 1986 she committed suicide in Tel Aviv.

In 2013 her autobiography was published under the title Im Roten Eis by the Aufbau-Verlag in Berlin after the instigation of her daughter Ester Noter and co-editor Ingo Way . The edition was funded by the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED dictatorship as a "scientific edition" with a printing subsidy.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruben-Wolf, Martha on bundesstiftung-aufverarbeitung.de
  2. ↑ Sonja Friedmann-Wolf, In the red ice. Book review by Vera Lengsfeld (PDF; 52 kB)
  3. ↑ 2013 list of projects from the Federal Foundation to Cope with the SED Dictatorship (PDF; 294 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann-Wolf, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1986
Place of death Tel Aviv