In January 1933 the NSDAP ( Nazi party ) took power and lost little time in establishing a one-party state in Germany . Membership of political parties ( other than of the Nazi party ) was banned which meant that political activities undertaken on behalf of the Communist Party became illegal . Richter nevertheless continued her political resistance work under the new regime . She helped to hide people whom state agencies wished to persecute , undertook courier work between Berlin and Prague and contributed material for illegal publications until April 1934 , which was when she emigrated , initially to Prague and from there to the Soviet Union . Her partner , Hans Günther , was by now already there and was working at the Communist Academy and as a writer . In Moscow Trude Richter was able to complete her post-doctoral dissertation and taught at the Moscow Pedagogical for modern languages . During the next couple of years she pursued her teaching career and produced at least one text-book for language teaching . On 3 November 1936 she took Soviet citizenship : the next day , on 4 November 1936 , Richter and her partner Hans Günther were both arrested and placed in pretrial detention . In the event there was to be no trial , but at the end of 1937 she was nevertheless sentenced to five years of detention in one of the Gulag Labor camps and a lifetime ban . She had , in fact , been expelled from the Communist Party in January 1937 , a couple of months after her initial detention . Grounds for her sentencing were recorded as alleged Counter-revolutionary and Trotskyite activities . On 17 August 1938 she was transferred to the Kolyma concentration camp region in the eastern interior of the Soviet Union , first in the North East " Ispravitel ' no-trudovoj " Rehabilitation Camp and then in the " Teka " " Ispravitel ' no-trudovoj " Dalstroy Rehabilitation Camp . Richter 's partner Hans Günther also found himself taken to the Kolyma region , but he died from Typhus on 10 November 1938 in a transit camp at Vladivostok . ' '' Trude Richter : Some published works ' '' Trude Richter was released from her detention on 14 September 1946 but she would remain in the eastern part of the Soviet Union till 1953 . Between 1946 and 1949 she was employed as a cloakroom attendant at the Gorki Theatre in Magadan where she was also able to help out with the stage sets and in the orchestra
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Trude Richter