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.

12 safety microfilms

LIST

1

Letters from Lidija O. Dan to Berta B. Mering   1923-1939, 1946-1959, and a few from Lidija Dan to A. Kisel'hof   1932-1933.  1 box.

2-3

Letters from various persons.   1921-1970, n.d.  2 boxes.

2

Abramovič ( Rein ), R.A. 1921-1925, 1930-1935, 1946. 29 letters;
Adler, Katja . 1951, 1954, 1955, n.d. 4 letters;
Ajzenštadt (ps. Judin), I.L. 1922, 1924 ;
7 letters;
Aksel'rod, P.B. N.d. 1 postcard;
Aronson, G.Ja. 1924, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1963. 7 letters;
Azarch (Anin), D. 1947. 2 letters;
Brojdo, E.L. 1921-1925. 16 letters;
Brojdo, V.M. 1934, 1935. 3 letters;
Cereteli, I. 1924, 1925, 1929. 4 letters;
Dalin, D. Ju. 1921. 4 letters;
Dan, F.I. 1922-1924, 1927, 1928, 1930-1933, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1945, 1946. 81 letters and postcards. See also: inv.nr. 7;
Dan, Lidija O. see: box 1;
Djubua, A.E. 1948-1949. 9 letters;
Domanevskaja, O.I. 1924-1926, 1932, 1954, 1956, 1962. 7 letters;
Dvinov (Gurevič), B.L . 1933. 1 letter;
Erlich, S.S. 1947-1958. 45 letters.

3

Estrin, S.E. 1953. 1 letter;
Ežov, S.O. 1932 and n.d. 2 postcards;
Garvi, Sil'va 1933 ;
Garvi, S.S. 1933-1935, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1954, 1955. 12 letters;
Genigberg, G.I. N.d. 1 letter;
Goc, V.S. 1935. 1 postcard;
Grjunvel'd, E.I. N.d. 2 postcards;
Ioffe, A. 1924. 1 letter;
Jugov, A.A. 1923-1933, 1945-1949. 52 letters;
Kamfman, A. 1947. 1 letter;
Kefali, M.S. and Julja Kamermacher. 1933, 1935, 1939, 1956, 1969. 5 letters;
Kisel'hof, A. 1933. 6 letters;
Kljačko, S. 1921, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1947. 12 letters;
Kuskova (Prokopovič), E. 1926, 1953, 1955-1957. 8 letters;
Litkens, V.A. 1924-1926, 1928-1934. 64 letters;
Lodyšenskij, I.I. 1925, 1932, 1933. 14 letters;
Martov, Ju.O. 1922. 1 letter and 2 postcards;
Mayer, C. and D. 1951-1970. 29 letters;
Meiksius, G. 1949. 1 letter;
Minor, O.S. 1925. 2 letters;
Murav'eva, E.I. 1945. 3 letters;
Nikolaevskij, B.I. 1923, 1924, 1931, 1933, 1934. 16 letters and postcards;
Rein, Murik. 1921, 1928, 1930. 6 letters and postcards;
Rein, Roza P. 1921-1925. 17 letters and postcards;
Rein, S.A. 1921. 2 letters;
Rozenfel'd, O.I. 1925, 1926, 1945-1963. 38 letters;
Sapir, B. 1936, 1942. 3 letters;
Sapir, V.D. 1920. 1 letter;
Šapiro, L.M. 1933. 1 letter;
Ščupak, S.D. 1921-1924, 1932, 1938. 23 letters;
Skomorovskij, B.A. and R.T. 1921, 1934, 1957, 1964. 11 letters;
Štejnberg, I.Z. 1923. 2 letters;
Švarc, V.A. and S.M. 1931-1933. 6 letters;
Werner, Max (A.M. Šifrin) . 1944, 1947, 1950. 9 letters;
Unknown. 11 letters and postcards.

4

Letters concerning the Političeskij Krasnyj Krest, including copies of letters from E.P. Peškova .   1921-1925, 1930-1935, 1962 and n.d.  1 folder.

5

Correspondence concerning the translation of 'Proizchoždenie bol'ševizma' by F.I. Dan .   1945-1947.  1 cover.

6

Photocopies of letters from Berta Mering to her son Jakov L. Mering .   1932-1934.  1 folder.

7

Photocopies of the letters from F.I. Dan in inv.nr. 2, with notes by L.O. Dan. [Annotated after 24 May   1958].  1 folder.

8

Typescript of her memoirs of her work in the Političeskij Krasnyj Krest in Butyrki Prison, Moscow.   1921, 1960.  1 folder.

9

Various documents.   1926, 1933 and n.d.  1 cover.