Sofia Dzerzhinskaya

Sofia Dzerzhinskaya
Sofia Dzerzhinskaya
Born
Sofia Muszkat

(1882-12-04)December 4, 1882
DiedFebruary 27, 1968(1968-02-27) (aged 85)
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Alma materChopin University of Music
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1917-)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1905-1917)
Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (-1918)
SpouseFelix Dzerzhinsky
ChildrenJan Dzerzhinsky
AwardsOrder of Lenin
Order of the Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya (born Muszkat; Polish: Zofia Dzierżyńska—Muszkat; Russian: Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская—Мушкат; 4 December 1882 27 February 1968) was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician. During World War II, she was director of the Polish language Tadeusz Kościuszko radio station, broadcasting the communist messages into occupied Poland.