Biography
Witte Moses Shakman was a Jewish tailor born in 1882 in Odesa in the Russian Empire, in present-day Ukraine. He immigrated to the United States in 1915 and lived in Chicago with his wife Rachael and their daughter Lucy. Shakman had belonged to the Russian Federation of the Socialist Party and later joined the Communist Party, the United Communist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Federal authorities arrested him in Chicago and deported him to Russia on March 18, 1921.
