Background
Valentine Adler was born in 1898 in Vienna, Austria. Her father was Alfred Adler and her mother was Raissa Timofeyevna Epstein, daughter of a Jewish merchant from Moscow.
Valentine Adler was born in 1898 in Vienna, Austria. Her father was Alfred Adler and her mother was Raissa Timofeyevna Epstein, daughter of a Jewish merchant from Moscow.
Adler joined the Communist Party of Austria in 1919. That year, she joined the German Communist Party. She had interest in moving to the Soviet Union because of the political state of the country.
Adler moved there in 1933.
Adler started to work as an editor at a publishing house focused around Soviet emigrants. She became disenchanted by the Soviet Union as the political and social climate changed and voiced her concerns through her writing.
On January 22, 1937, Adler and Sas were arrested and imprisoned at the Lubyanka Building. She was interrogated there.
She was then transferred to the Butyrki prison.
On September 19, 1937, she was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for being "guilty of illegal Trotskyite activities and having established contacts with foreign Trotskyite groups." Her parents had met Leon Trotsky before, which the military tribunal claimed was the cause for Adler"s interests and involvement in anti-Soviet activism. She died in a Gulag camp on July 6, 1942. In 1952 Albert Einstein petitioned the Soviet Union to release details about Adler"s trial.
Until this petitioning, her death date was unknown.
She was declared rehabilitated on August 11, 1956, by the Supreme Court of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
She left the party in 1921. She was a strong believer in Utopian socialism. As Nazism gained influence in Germany, her husband moved to Moscow.