[1] Ella Goldberg was born on May 10, 1896, in Kherson, Ukraine and came to Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her parents in 1906.
They lived for a time in Mexico City, where their circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
In 1929, they moved to Moscow but fell out with Stalin; they left two years later and returned to Brooklyn.
[1][2] After Stalin aligned himself with Hitler in 1939, Wolfe and her husband abandoned communism and became anti-communists.
[5] Ella Goldberg Wolfe died age 103 on January 8, 2000, at home in Palo Alto.