Alternate name(s):
Alan Herman (birth name)
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 25 January 1916
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Jewish
Profession:
journalist
Hometown(s):
Montreal, Quebec
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1936
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-17
Unit:
Blood Transfusion Institute; Daily Clarion staff; Correspondent for the New York Federated Press
Final status:
Survived; Returned September 1937
Other:
Allan wrote the introduction for the pamphlet Hello Canada.
Wrote This Time A Better Earth (1999) and Co-Author The Scalpel, the Sword: The Story of Dr. Norman Bethune (1952); Ted Allen Papers, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
Sources:
Momryk; Petrou
