Fanny Jakovkis was born in Argentinian Cordoba in a family of Jewish emi- grants from the Russian Empire, who run of Jewish pogroms. Her father was born in Zgurita, Bessarabia. At the age of 13, they moved ot Buenos Aires. At the age of 14, she started to work in the textile industry and later she studied at the National Conservatory of Argentina and became a professor of music. After the military round of the general Jose Felix Uriburu against the president Hipolito Yrigoyen in 1930, she started to participate in the activities of the group of left side intellectuals, where the artist FabioHebeker, the writer Alavaro Junke andLeonidas Barletta were. They con- vinced her in 1934 to join the Communist Party of Argentina and the International Red Assistance (IDA), where she could help the Argentinian political prisoners. Becoming famous during the Spanish civil war, Fanny continued to participateactively in inter- national solidarity campaigns with USSR during the World War I (she gathered funds for the Red Army). As communist leader, she met Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin and Che Guevara, when he administered the Central Bank of Cuba. In 1947, she participated in the creation of Pro-communist Women's Union of Argentina. In 1972, she conduc- ted the International Democrat Federation of Women, who pleaded for the rights of women and workers in the middle of the military dictatorships of Latin America and organized seminars in Latin America, Asia and Africa