Senya Fleshin

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Senya Fleshin
Born	19 December 1894(1894-12-19) Kiev, Ukraine
Died	19 June 1981 (aged 86) Mexico City, Mexico

Senya Fleshin (Kiev, Ukraine, on 19 December 1894 - Mexico City, on 19 June 1981) was a Jewish anarchist and photographer.

Senya Fleshin was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on 19 December 1894. When he was sixteen his family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. He worked for Mother Earth, an anarchist journal published by Emma Goldman.

In 1917 Fleshin returned to Russia to take part in the Russian 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 1 November, 1922 Fleshin and Steimer were 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 (1926-1932).

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 19 June 1981.