1. Flora Solomon was the mother of Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International.
11 Facts About Flora Solomon
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Flora Solomon described her "personal trinity" as "Russian soul, Jewish heart, British passport".
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Flora Solomon Benenson was born on 28 September 1895 in Pinsk, in what is Belarus.
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Flora Solomon was a daughter of Sophie Goldberg and the Jewish Russian financier Grigori Benenson, who was related to the Rothschild family.
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Flora Solomon learned that staff often did not eat lunch because they could not afford it.
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Flora Solomon was a long-time friend of British intelligence officer Kim Philby.
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Flora Solomon introduced him to his second wife Aileen, whom she knew from her work as a store detective at Marks and Spencers.
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Flora Solomon related the details of the 1937 contact to Victor Rothschild, who had worked for MI5 during the Second World War.
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Flora Solomon then went on to tell Rothschild that she suspected that Philby and Harris had been Soviet agents since the 1930s.
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Flora Solomon was widowed in 1930 and raised Peter on her own.
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Flora Solomon died on 18 July 1984 and was buried next to her late husband at the Cimetiere Israelite de La Tour-de-Peilz, in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.