placed aboard a ship bound for Germany. Later career Together with Molly Steimer, Fleshin opened a photographic studio in Berlin. Fleshin was active in the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionaries (1923–26), and the Relief Fund of the International Working Men's Association for Anarchists (1926–32). When Hitler came to power, Fleshin and Molly Steimer were forced to flee to Paris. On 18 May 1940, Steimer was arrested by the French government and interned at Camp Gurs. After seven weeks of imprisonment, Steimer, aided by French anarchist friends, including May Picqueray, editor of Le Réfractaire, managed to escape Camp Gurs during its chaotic turnover to Vichy control. Picqueray helped smuggle Fleshin and Steimer out of the country to Mexico, where they settled, running a photography studio. Death Senya Fleshin died in Mexico City, on 19 June 1981, aged 86. References External links Senya Flechin page from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia 1894 births 1981 deaths American anarchists American emigrants to Mexico American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Anarcho-communists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Jewish anarchists Mexican anarchists Mexican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Mexican Jews Russian anarchists Russian revolutionaries Soviet anarchists Ukrainian anarchists Ukrainian revolutionaries