Edda Tennenbaum

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The grave of Edda Tennenbaum and her nephew Witold Leder (2012)

Edda Tennenbaum (born December 24, 1878 in Mitau , † September 24, 1952 in Warsaw ) was a Polish communist .

Life

Edda Tennenbaum, née Hirschfeld, initially worked in Lodz as a German teacher and housekeeper. As a member of the General Jewish Workers' Union for Russia, Poland and Lithuania (Bund) and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), she was arrested and banished several times. In 1904 she went to Berlin and Zurich on behalf of the party, and later to Stuttgart . From 1909 to 1911 she worked with Clara Zetkin on the journal equality . She moved to Paris with her husband Jan Tennenbaum and became a member of the French Socialists.

In 1919 Edda Tennenbaum was an official of the Comintern in Moscow , then in Berlin and Hamburg , where she carried the code name Klara Klarowska. From the mid-1920s she got involved in the faction struggles of the KPD and lost her post.

During the Stalin purges , Edda Tennenbaum was arrested by the NKVD in Moscow and sentenced to eight years in a Gulag camp. After her release, she returned to Warsaw in 1948. With Karl Wloch and others, she organized educational work there among German prisoners of war. Hermann Kant described this in his novel The Residence . Edda Tennenbaum died in Warsaw on September 24, 1952.

family

Her husband Jan Tennenbaum (* 1881), also a leading party functionary, died in 1937 in a Soviet camp after he was arrested on baseless accusations. Their son Kasimir Tennenbaum (* 1909 in Stuttgart) was arrested by the NKVD on November 4, 1936 and murdered on January 8, 1938 in the Gulag camp northeast in Karaganda .

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SURNAME Tennenbaum, Edda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish communist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Mitau
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1952
Place of death Warsaw