Vera Broido was a Russian-born writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution as one who grew up through it and lost her mother to its aftermath.
Background
Vera Broido was born in Street St. Petersburg in 1907, the daughter of two Russian Jewish revolutionaries. In 1914, when Vera was seven, her family was plunged into a life of isolation and fear when her mother, prominent Menshevik Eva Broido, was sentenced to exile in Western Siberia for taking a stand against the war.
Career
The memory of her stay in Siberia and her experiences there never left her. She left the wastes of Siberia for Germany, thanks to the efforts of her father Mark. She never saw her mother after Eva returned voluntarily to the Social-Democratic Party underground in Russia in 1927, and was later told that she had been executed.
In 1941 Vera married British historian Norman Cohn.
They had one son Nik Cohn, who went on to become a writer After a stay in Derry in Northern Ireland, she later made her home in London and then in Wood End, Hertfordshire.
She died peacefully in 2004 at the age of 97.