Malvina Gruber

Malvina Gruber, née Hofstadterová, was born in Žabokreky nad Nitrou. She was married to the Czech-Hungarian Adolphe Gruber and had six children. ==World War II==

Trepper group In 1939, Gruber was recruited by Leopold Trepper who was the leader of a Soviet espionage group in Europe. On the way back, Gruber escorted Sophia Poznańska back to Brussels. Arrest Rajchmann was arrested by Abwehr officer, Harry Piepe, on the 2 September 1942. Rajchmann also decided to cooperate with the Abwehr resulting in his betrayal of his mistress, who was arrested in Paris on the 12 October 1942 at the Cafe de la Paix. Gruber immediately decided to cooperate with the Abwehr, in an attempt to avoid intensified interrogation, i.e. torture. Together with Rajchmann, she enthusiastically collaborated in betraying several agents in the network both in Brussels and later in Paris, that surprised German officials. She admitted the existence of a Soviet agent Anatoly Gurevich and his probable location, as well as exposing several members of the Trepper espionage network in France. As a member of the Red Orchestra, it would have been expected that she and Rajchmann would have been executed. However, the fact that she survived was not due to their service to the Sonderkommando, but due to a Gestapo officer, Rudolf Radke, who became friendly with Gruber, saving Gruber from death on the pretext that the investigation was not completed. After being released, Gruber was allowed to return to Brussels. ==Political attack==

On 28 July 1944, two men entered Grubers garden at her villa in Avenue de Fléron and fired shots at her, hitting her in the chest three times and also hitting her daughter Alice in the thigh. Both survived. After being interrogated by Belgian and Dutch police and released in January 1945, she decided to move to Germany with her seven children. ==After World War II==

After the war, Gruber was deported by Belgian authorities and she left to move to Czechoslovakia via Germany in October 1945. In August 1946, she was arrested in Germany. The official publications of the sentence noted her being born in Jambokretz, Czechoslovakia, on 6 December 1906. She was released in December 1951 and lived as a former Jewish concentration camp inmate and victim of Nazi rule in a Jewish retirement home in Munich. She then traveled on to her children in Israel and, according to a 1952 report, continued to work as a secret agent. ==References==