 Following the war she worked on the Committee of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp survivors (""Komitee der Ravensbrücker""), later serving for many years as the General Secretary of the International Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Committee.She worked with the powerful Party Central Committee of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) though she was never herself a member of it.She was, however, a member of the East German national parliament (""Volkskammer"") between 1958 and 1986.