The Kafka Project is a non-profit literary research initiative founded in 1998 at San Diego State University.
Kafka's missing writings consist of 35 letters written to Dora Diamant between 1923–1924 and up to 20 notebooks,[2] representing the last year of his life.
[4] Dora Diamant's letters to Max Brod contain information to further identify the missing materials[5] Kafka requested that all his extant writings be destroyed.
Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Gestapo ransacked her Berlin flat and confiscated every piece of paper, looking for Communist propaganda.
Brod was told that the mountainous stacks of papers confiscated in the early days of Nazi rule made it impossible to recover at the time.