Dora Diamantová

✶March 4, 1898

†August 15, 1952

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About their life

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.

Polish teacher and actress, last lover of writer Franz Kafka (1898 or 1902-1952)

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Biography from the article Dora Diamantová on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.