Zenzl Mühsam
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Zenzl Mühsam was a political activist who was involved, with her husband, Erich Mühsam, in the Munich Soviet of 1919.
Portrait of Mühsam from a plaque in Pankow
Hotel Lux
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Hotel Lux was a hotel in Moscow during the Soviet Union, housing many leading exiled and visiting Communists. During the Nazi era, exiles from all over Europe went there, particularly from Germany. A
Zenzl Mühsam
…1947 she recognised a railway worker, with whose help she was smuggled back to Moscow where for a time she lived at the (by this time much degraded) Hotel Lux, integrating herself with German exiles awaiting repatriation. However, she was denounced to the authorities - according to one source by fellow German…
The Hotel Frantsiya, later the Hotel Lux, c. 1911
The former Hotel Lux in Moscow, 2013