Eiger, Maria

  General Notes:

She distanced herself from her family's wealthy lifestyle and worked a s a teacher in the shtetl in Drohiczyn teaching the common people. sh e was a communist and even led a strike at her father's factory. Sh e was arrested in January 1936 in Warsaw for conducting communist acti vities: (Marie Eiger, Woman Communist Leader, Gets 12-year Term in War saw" - JTA Archive).