Anna Tieke ( born Anna Wittenburg : 11 November 1898 - 15 January 1938 ) was a German communist . With her family she relocated to the Soviet Union in 1931 . On 15 January 1938 Anna Tieke and her son Rudolf , identified as " suspected German spies " , were shot and killed in Leningrad . Formal " rehabilitation " came posthumously , in 1956
were shot and killed
Great Purge
Anna Tieke