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Jewish Woman, Champion in Cause of Liberty, Dies

October 27, 1926
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Olga Shereshewska, Lithuanian Jewess and one of the leaders of the Russian revolutionary movement, died here yesterday at the age of 93.

Madam Shereshewska was a doctor of medicine and an educator. She was exiled to Siberia by the Czarist government for her revolutionary activities. She spent twenty years in exile.

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