On this day, 21 November, 1897, revolutionary Jewish textile worker Mollie Steimer was born in Russia. She emigrated to New York in 1913 and was radicalised while working in a garment factory. For producing leaflets opposed to the US invasion of revolutionary Russia, Steimer was sentenced to 15 years’ prison, but she maintained her political activity and was arrested eight more times while on bail during her appeal before she was deported to Russia.
In Russia Steimer continued her revolutionary activity and was arrested by the Bolsheviks and sentenced to two years’ exile in Siberia. At this point she and her partner went on hunger strike and were eventually deported instead to Germany. Steimer continued her activism until her death aged 82.
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