Today in Labor History October 11, 1937: Polish-Jewish anarchist activist, Aniela Wolberg, died unexpectedly during surgery. She cofounded the underground newspaper Proletariat at a time when it was illegal to publish anarchist ideas in Poland. In 1926 she became a member of the Anarchist Federation of Poland, before moving to Paris later that year. In France, she worked with Walka, a Polish journal of anarchism, and became friends with the Chinese anarchist writer Ba Jin, who would write two short stories about her, Yalianna (1931) and Yalianna Woboerge (1933). In 1927 she was a delegate, along with Nestor Makhno and others, at a committee to discuss forming an anarchist international. In 1932, she was deported back to Poland. To earn a living, she worked as a chemical engineer and, later, as a bacteriologist. It is believed by some, though unconfirmed, that she also worked as an organizer with the CNT at the beginning of the Spanish war against fascism.

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