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Emilie Neumann Kaminsky registered to vote on October 6, 1920, one of the 126 women who registered that day in Boston’s Ward 16. #MaryElizaProject #BostonHistory
Emilie Neumann Kaminsky and her daughter, Martha Kaminsky Prentke, were also active in the YWPC, both serving as President. After her 1908 divorce, Martha moved to London and later to Poland, before returning to the United States before the beginning of World War II.
As a high school student in 1902, Hedwig “Haidee” Kaminsky Rosenblum served as the Secretary of the Young Women’s Political Club (YWPC), primarily consisting of young immigrant working women and Boston West End night school students born in Russia and Germany.
According to Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, the YWPC was an arm of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA), organized by Ida Estelle Hall. By 1940, Haidee had moved to California with her husband, where she resided until her death in 1944.
