Mollie Steimer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mollie Steimer

Russian anarchist

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1897

Place of Birth: Dunaivtsi, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1980

Profession: photographer, writer, peace activist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mollie (or Molly) Stimer (Russian: ????? ???????; November 21, 1897 – July 23, 1980) was born as Marthe Alperine in Tsarist Russia.
She immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 15.
She became an anarchist and activist who fought as a trade unionist, an anti-war activist and a free-speech campaigner. Arrested in 1918 for printing and distributing leaflets denouncing the U.S.
military action in Russia opposing the Bolshevik revolution, she was convicted under the Sedition Act and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
She was deported to her native Russia in 1921, where she met anarchist Senya Fleshin who would become her lifelong partner.
After protesting Bolshevik persecutions of anarchists in Russia, the two were deported to Germany in 1923.
When Hitler came to power in Germany they fled to France and eventually made their way to Mexico where they spent the rest of their lives together.