1. Mollie Steimer was a Ukrainian anarchist activist.
15 Facts About Mollie Steimer
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On November 21,1897, Mollie Steimer was born in Dunaivtsi, a village in the south-west of the Russian Empire.
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Together with other Jewish anarchists, Mollie Steimer helped form a clandestine collective called Der Shturm, which published radical works in the Yiddish language.
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Several of the collective's members, including Mollie Steimer, lived and worked together in a six-room apartment on Harlem's East 104th Street.
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Mollie Steimer was arrested after police received information from an informant within the Frayhayt group.
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Mollie Steimer returned to activism, for which she was arrested multiple times over the following year.
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On March 11,1919, during a police raid against the Russian People's House on New York's East 15th Street, Mollie Steimer was arrested on charges of incitement and subsequently transferred to Ellis Island.
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On October 30,1919, Mollie Steimer was arrested again and imprisoned on Blackwell's Island.
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Mollie Steimer found this task difficult, injuring her arm while attempting to fulfil the quota, but persevered to not bring "further persecution" against her family.
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Mollie Steimer attempted to support her mother and surviving siblings, but her appeal for compassionate release was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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Mollie Steimer's lawyer managed to secure her release, on the condition of her deportation.
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In 1924, they joined their fellow exile Volin to Paris, where they established a mutual aid society for anarchist exiles from all countries and participated in the debate around the Platform, which Mollie Steimer criticised as authoritarian.
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Mollie Steimer remained at Camp Gurs for six months before finally being released.
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Mollie Steimer then fled south from Nazi-occupied France to the area controlled by the collaborationist French State.
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Mollie Steimer died of heart failure in her Cuernavaca home on July 23,1980, aged 82.