Germany

Hoy, Senna, 1882-1914

Illustration of Senna Hoy

A short biography of German Jewish anarchist and gay liberationist Senna Hoy.

Senna Hoy was born Johannes Holzmann in 1882 into a well-off Jewish family. He is mentioned as a member of Helen Blavatsky’s Theosophical circle in Berlin in 1903, when he would have been eighteen.

Jelinek, Wilhelm 'Willi', 1889-1952

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Biographical information about Willi Jelinek, and information about the anarchist movement in post-war East Germany under Russian occupation.

The dark night of Willi Jelinek
Wilhelm Jelinek, or Willi as he was known, was born in Germany on Christmas day in 1889.

He lived in Zwickau, an industrial town in Saxony, in the former East Germany, not far from Chemnitz and the Czech border.

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