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 , on 1 March 1934 . 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 purges in 1937 , Dora left the Soviet Union , traveling across Europe , reaching safety in England one week before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939
purges in 1937
Great Purge
Dora Diamant