Background
Ioffe, Maria was born in 1900 in New York, United States into the family ofa Russian Jewish political exile.
Ioffe, Maria was born in 1900 in New York, United States into the family ofa Russian Jewish political exile.
Involved in revolutionary activity in Russia. Worked on Bolshevik newspapers after 1917. Married the Soviet diplomat A. Ioffe, 1918.
Arrested for a speech in defence of L. Trotsky, 1929. Spent the next 28 years in the Gulag. Released, 1957. Emigrated, 1975.
Settled in Israel. Became a chronicler of her Gulag experience.