14 Facts About Rachelle Yarros

Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros was an American physician who supported the use of birth control and the social hygiene movement.

Rachelle Yarros has used the penname Rosa Slobodinsky when writing an Anarchist pamphlet.

Rachelle Yarros Slobodinsky was born into a wealthy family in Berdychiv, a city near Kiev.

Rachelle Yarros fled to New York, where she got a job sewing at a sweatshop.

Rachelle Yarros later moved to Boston, where she met her future husband, Victor Yarros.

Rachelle Yarros completed postgraduate training at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the New York Infirmary for Infants and Children and Michael Reese Hospital.

Rachelle Yarros was deeply affected by the suicide of one of her patients.

Rachelle Yarros was on the UIC faculty until 1928, becoming an associate professor, and she served as an associate director of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital.

For many years, Rachelle Yarros was the director of the Illinois Birth Control League.

Rachelle Yarros was one of the founders of the American Social Hygiene Association and she served as the first vice-president of the Illinois Social Hygiene League.

Rachelle Yarros moved again in 1941, this time to La Jolla, California.

Rachelle Yarros maintained some involvement in social and civic causes even late in life, chairing the Russian Relief Committee of La Jolla and serving as vice-president of the San Diego Social Hygiene Association.

Victor Rachelle Yarros, who had at one time been a law partner of Clarence Darrow, lived until 1956.

Rachelle Yarros died in San Diego in 1946 of heart failure; she had suffered a heart attack several years earlier.