papers, in a 1933 Gestapo raid. It is not known which notebooks ended in Diamant's possession and which had already been passed on to Brod during Kafka's last illness. Searches for these missing papers have been conducted by Max Brod and German Kafka scholar Klaus Wagenbach in the 1950s, and since the 1990s by the Kafka Project, based at San Diego State University in California. In the late 1920s Dora studied theatre at the Dumont Drama Academy in Düsseldorf and worked as a professional actress. In the 1930s Dora joined the Communist Party of Germany as an agitprop actress and married Lutz Lask, editor of Die Rote Fahne, the Communist party newspaper. She gave birth to a daughter, Franziska Marianne Lask, named after Franz Kafka on 1 March 1934. The daughter died in London in September 1982. Dora escaped Germany with her daughter in 1936, joining her husband in Soviet Russia. After Lask was arrested and sent to the Far East during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937, Dora left the Soviet Union, traveling across Europe, reaching safety in England one week before Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Dora and her daughter were interned as enemy aliens at the Port Erin Women's Detention Camp on the Isle of Man, then released in 1940. By 1941 she returned to London, where she helped to fund the Friends of Yiddish, working to keep the Jewish language and culture alive. In 1950 she finally realized her lifelong dream and visited the new state of Israel. She died of kidney failure at Plaistow Hospital in east London on 15 August 1952 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the United Synagogue Cemetery on Marlowe Road in East Ham. In 1999, her relatives from Israel and Germany gathered at her gravesite for a stone setting, which reads "Who knows Dora, knows what love means". פרנצ'סקה מריאן, נפטרה בלונדון בחודש ספטמבר 1982 References Further reading Kumpfmüller, Michael. The Glory of Life: A Novel, translated by Anthea Bell, Haus Publishing, 2014 (first published as Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens in 2011 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Murray, Nicholas. Kafka, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. External links "Kafka Project" at San Diego State University conducts search for Franz Kafka's missing papers, confiscated by the Gestapo Branded Play on Dora Diamant by Remigiusz Grzela 1903 births 1952 deaths Franz Kafka 19th-century Polish Jews Jewish activists People interned in the