Lazarevich (nee Gilman) Ida Meerovna

Genus. in 1901 in the city of Smorgon, Vilna province; Jewish; from the bourgeoisie; incomplete higher education; anarchist. In 1923 she lived in Moscow, a student at the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow State University; arrested on February 27, 1923 “for connections with anarcho-underground members”; By decision of the GPU Collegium dated March 15, 1923, the case was terminated. Arrested again in Moscow on March 6, 1924 “for participation in a student anarchist group”; by decision of the NKVD Commission on Administrative Expulsions dated April 4, 1924, she was deprived of the right to reside in Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Rostov-on-Don, Orsha, and Ukraine for 2 years. In 1924 she fled abroad, lived in Poland for 2 years, and in 1926 moved to Paris. She participated in the anarchist movement and collaborated in the journal Delo Truda. In 1928, together with her husband, she published the newspaper Trade Union Liberation. For her activities she was expelled from France. Settled in Liege (Belgium). She continued her medical studies and was active in politics. In 1933 - one of the founders of the newspaper “Trade Union Awakening”. In 1936 she returned to Paris. She worked as secretary of the gas industry workers' union. During World War II, she was arrested and sent to the Rieucro camp (Ariège dept.). In 1948–1951 she worked in a dispensary for Jewish children in Brunois (near Paris). Since the early 1950s, she has been engaged in technical translations. In the 1950s and 1960s she collaborated with the magazine “Est et Ouest”. She published articles about the Soviet Union and articles on historical and cultural topics in periodicals under the pseudonym Ida Mett. Author of the work “La Commune de Crondstadt, crépuscule sanglant des soviets” (“The Kronstadt Commune, the bloody twilight of the Soviets”). She died in Paris in 1973. Rehabilitated by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation on January 28, 1994.