Vera Broido

Vera, to the right Photo: August Sander.

Vera Broido, writer and feminist, was born in St Petersbug in 1907, the daughter of two Russian Jewish revolutionaries. In 1914, when Vera was seven, her mother, prominent Menshevik Eva Broido, was sentenced to exile in Siberia for taking a stand against the war. 

During her time in Berlin in the 1920s Vera met the avant garde artist and Dadaist Raoul Hausmann and became his lover and muse, living in a ménage à trois with him and his wife Hedwig Mankiewtiz in the fashionable Charlottenburg district of Berlin.

After a stay in Northern Ireland, she later settled down in England, where she died in 2004.