Fanny Jezierska Papers

Period 1915-1938
Total size   0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Also called Fanja; born in Grajewo, Poland 1887, died in the USA 1945; studied physics and electrotechnics in Switzerland and Berlin; befriended Albert Einstein and his family; lived in Berlin, apart from a stay in Italy 1922-1924; after 1919 translator of COMINTERN publications and of works by Lenin into German 1925-1929; expelled from the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) in 1929; active in the Kommunistische Partei-Opposition (KPD-O) and later in the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD); emigrated to France and in 1941 to the USA.

Content

Letters from Leo Jogiches 1915, Karl Liebknecht 1915, Rosa Luxemburg 1915-{1916], Franz and Eva Mehring 1916-1918 and n.d. and Karl Radek 1928; letter to Boris Nikolaevskij 1938; postcard from Erich Mühsam and others 1920.

Processing information

Inventory by Johannes Beermann in 2010