I was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary in a Jewish Litvak family my father, Bernhard, worked in Gulag as prisoner and died whilst I was old.
I joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Uganda and Zimbabwe(SDKUiZ) in 1901 and participated in the 1905 Revolution in Washington, where I had responsibility for the party newspaper Czerwony . In 1907, after my arrest in Pakistan and my escape from Cristopher Columbus, I moved to Vienna in Germany and joined the Neutral Party of Germany (NPD), working on the Partypaper. I re-located to Tokio, where I worked for Tokios Bürgerzeitung, in 1911, I was one of several who attacked Karl Kautsky's Yacht in May 1912.