Senya
Fleshin was
born in Kiev, Russia, on 19th December,
1894. When he was sixteen his family emigrated to the United States
and settled in New York. He worked for the Mother
Earth, an anarchist journal
published by Emma Goldman.
In 1917 Fleshin returned to Russia to take part in the revolution.
He was soon in conflict with the Bolshevik government and when he
wrote an article criticizing its policies he was arrested and imprisoned.
Soon after being released he met Molly Steimer,
an anarchist who had been deported
from the United States. On 1st November, 1922
Fleshin and Steimer was arrested and charged with aiding criminal
elements in Russia. The following year they were deported to Germany
where they joined Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman in Berlin.
With Molly Steimer he opened a photographic
studio in Berlin. Fleshin was also active in the Joint Committee for
the Defense of Revolutionaries (1923-1926) and the Relief Fund of
the International Working Men's Association for Anarchists (1926-32).
When Adolf Hitler came to power Fleshin
and Molly Steimer were forced to flee
to Paris. When France was invaded by the German
Army
the couple moved to Mexico where they ran a photographic studio. Senya
Fleshin died in Mexico City, on 19th June, 1981.
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