Shapiro Rachel Davidovna

Shapiro Rachel Davidovna

Born in 1897 in Brest-Litovsk; Jewish; anarchist communist. In the spring of 1917 she lived in Petrograd. She worked as a secretary in the editorial office of the Bolshevik newspaper "Soldatskaya Pravda". She married A.P. Shapiro in the summer of 1917. From the summer of 1918 - in Kyiv. In the fall of 1919 she gave birth to a son. From Kyiv in August 1919 she moved to Moscow. She was arrested on 17 (21) August 1921 in the city of Surazh, Gomel province, where she went to visit her sick son. Her husband managed to escape abroad. Sentenced by the MChK on 14 January 1922 for belonging to an anarchist organization, for counter-revolutionary activity to exile to the Arkhangelsk province for 2 years. In April 1922, she arrived in Kholmogory before being sent to Petrominsk. On July 1, 1923, all prisoners of the Petrominsk camp were transported to Solovki. On November 13, 1923, she was sent to Kem. On January 10, 1924, she was released. She married a second time, to an exiled anarchist Belyaev N. M. She returned to Surazh to her mother-in-law for her son, and lived in Moscow for some time. She was exiled to Kyzyl-Orda after her husband. On October 2, 1927, her husband was exiled from Kyzyl-Orda to Minusinsk. In 1931, she gave birth to a daughter. In 1936, her husband was arrested and sentenced to capital punishment on August 13, 1937. She left with her daughter for Belaya Tserkov, from where she managed to escape in the summer of 1941 before the Germans arrived. She was evacuated to Ufa, then moved to Ishimbay, where she died in 1944. She was rehabilitated on 31.01.1997 by the Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office.