Maria Martha Saran, known as Mary Saran, was a journalist and author.
14 Facts About Mary Saran
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Maria Mary Saran was born in Cranz, a small seaside town in what was then East Prussia.
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Mary Saran was the seventh of ten recorded children born to the busy architect Richard Saran and his wife.
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Mary Saran embarked on a course in Medicine, studying at Berlin and Gottingen in 1918, and successfully completing the first stage of the course before abandoning it.
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Mary Saran married a young doctor called Max Hodann on 24 December 1919, which was the day on which Hodann received his doctorate for a dissertation advocating counseling centres for sufferers from Venereal diseases, entitled "Die sozialhygienische Bedeutung der Beratungsstellen fur Geschlechtskranke".
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Mary Saran worked in adult education in Berlin and engaged in social work.
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Mary Saran had, in 1918, joined the Independent Social Democratic Party, which had been formed the previous year when the Social Democratic Party had split, largely over the issue of whether or not to continue backing German participation in the war.
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Mary Saran was one of those who signed the ISK's Urgent Call for [political left-wing] Unity in 1932.
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Maria Mary Saran escaped with her twelve-year-old daughter Renate, initially to France and, for some months, Denmark.
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Many of the socialist refugees from Nazism, who had lived in England since the 1930s now returned to Germany, including Minna Specht with whom Mary Saran had at times worked closely in London.
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Mary Saran stayed on in England, working as a freelance journalist, contributing particularly to socialist and women's publications.
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Mary Saran worked with the UNESCO, focusing on women's issues.
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Mary Saran continued to play an active part in British Labour Party politics and in adult education.
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Mary Saran's memoir appeared in 1976 under the title "Never give up".