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...Soon Ana broke away from her family. She would go out with friends in the evening or sneak off to the theater. Old Zvi objected at first, then gave up. At 17, she met a young Socialist lawyer named Steinberg and fell in love with him. He gave her Socialist tracts and took her to May Day celebrations in the forest near Bucharest. After four years, they quarreled. Steinberg married Ana's friend Mitzi. (He has since died and Mitzi has gone to Tel Aviv. She said last week that she still keeps letters from Ana, which speak tenderly...
...Young Ana got a job teaching Hebrew at Temply Coral Synagogue school. She was a slender young girl with even features; one of her students remembers her as gentle and kind, with unruly brown hair which she kept tossing off her forehead...
...Steinberg Tradition. Ana studied medicine at Bucharest University and later in Zurich. There she met and married Marcel Pauker, a short, mustachioed Rumanian student of a good bourgeois family. In the Steinberg tradition, she gave him pamphlets to read and converted him to Marxism. Ana quit medicine, devoted herself entirely to healing mankind in other ways...
...Ana was arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
Homecoming. In 1940, the Rumanian government exchanged her for a Rumanian nationalist politician whom the Russians had taken prisoner in Bessarabia. Ana went to Moscow, where she found that her husband Marcel had got himself into Trotzkyite trouble; he was shot (according to one version) in a telephone booth. Some say that Ana gave evidence against him. Without flinching over Marcel's fate, Ana became a member of the Comintern Executive. She was one of the signatories of the protocol "dissolving" the Third International. One day at a meeting she attracted the attention of Andrei Vishinsky for her brisk...