Berta B. Mering Papers

Period 1921-1970
Total size   0.5 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Full name: Berta Borisovna Mering; born in Russia 1885, died in France 1970; member of the `Bund'; Menshevik; before and after the (1917) Revolution she was active in the Political Red Cross in Moscow; left the Soviet Union about 1921 to live in Paris; active in helping political prisoners in the Soviet Union; after the Second World War in charge of an organization for the relief of children, subsidized by the Jewish Labor Committee.

Content

Letters received by Mering, some by her son Jakov L. Mering, from some 50 correspondents, mainly Russian social democrats, including Lidija Dan (c. 250 letters), Fedor Dan 1922-1946, Iraklij Tsereteli 1924-1925, 1929, Samuil Sč 1921-1924, 1932, 1938, Boris Nikolaevskij 1923-1924, 1931-1934, Rafail Abramovič 1921-1925, 1930-1935, 1946; letters relating to the Political Red Cross 1921-1935 and a few letters (copies) received from Ekaterina P. Peškova 1933, 1935, 1962; typescript of Mering's memoirs of her work in the Political Red Cross in Butyrki Prison, Moscow 1921, 1960.

Alternate Form of Material

Partly published in: Iz archiva L.O. Dan. Otobral, snabdil primecanijami i ocerkom biografii L.O. Dan Boris Sapir (from the archives of L.O. Dan. Selected, annotated and with an outline of L.O. Dan's biography by Boris Sapir). Amsterdam, 1987.

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