Bertha Sokoloff (born in Whitechapel, London; died 10 June 2018 aged 98[1]) was a prominent figure within the Stepney Communist Party, and was its General Secretary in 1940 and 1941 during the Second World War.
Sokoloff was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London to Romanian immigrants Rachel and Jacob Markovitch.
Sokoloff's father left the family after entering a relationship with a nurse who looked after him following an injury during an army training exercise in the First World War.
[3] She left the CPGB in 1957 over the heavy-handed response of the Soviet Union to the Hungarian Revolution one year prior, but remained politically active her entire life.
In the 1970s, she taught mature students at Woolwich College in the 1970s, and "contributed to the social life of Bromley Reform Synagogue" following her retirement.