Rose Witcop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rose Witcop

anarchist and birth control activist

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1890

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of Death: 04-Jul-1932

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Rose Witcop

  • Rose Lilian Witcop Aldred (9 April 1890 – 4 July 1932) was an anarchist, journalist and pioneer of birth control and sex education.
  • She was born Rachel Vitkopski in Kiev, Ukraine to Jewish parents - Simon and Freda (Grill) - who brought her to London, England when she was five years old. Witcop was a member of the anarchist Jubilee Street Club - her sister Milly (Witkop) was the partner of Rudolf Rocker - and it was there she met Guy Aldred.
  • In January 1907 they set up home together in Thorpebank Road, Shepherd's Bush, London.
  • Two years later, on 2 May 1909, she gave birth to their son, Annesley. She worked alongside Guy Aldred and single-handedly ran The Spur during his imprisonment for resisting conscription during the First World War.
  • From 1921 she concentrated her efforts on the issue of birth control and in 1923 she and Aldred were arrested and charged for publishing and distributing Margaret Sanger's Family Limitation.
  • The case drew much press coverage and was supported both morally and financially at appeal by Dora and Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes among others.
  • Although losing the case, Rose re-published the text in 1925 and, while she avoided prosecution, attracted the attention of the Home Office who threatened to deport her as a Russian (i.e.
  • Soviet) national.
  • Despite having parted in 1924, Witcop and Aldred arranged a civil marriage in order to confirm her citizenship status and prevent any possible deportation. She died on 4 July 1932 in St George's Hospital, London from gangrenous appendicitis and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium two days later.

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