Ida Mett [SEP] place of death
Ida Mett
Ida Mett (born Ida Gilman, 20 July 1901 in Smarhoń, Imperial Russia – 27 June 1973 in Paris, France) was a Belarusian-born anarchist and author.
Mett was an active participant in the Russian anarchist movement in Moscow, and was arrested by Soviet authorities for subversive activities and escaped soon thereafter. From Russia, she fled to Poland, later Berlin, and eventually to Paris (1926) where she became active with Dielo Trouda Group and co-edited the "Dielo Truda" magazine
monoglot. Communication of his Russian experiences was not restricted to the written word. Between 1926 and 1928 he arranged around fifty meetings in Germany, Switzerland and France in order to share his experiences more widely. Something of the character of these meetings is apparent from the observation reproduced in one source that they often involved clashes with "local communists".
Biography Ida Mett.
Ida Gilman (usually identified in sources as Ida Mett) was born in Smarhon’, a small industrial predominantly Jewish town in the flatlands between Vilnius and