Alternate name(s):
Mengel
Date of birth:
Monday, 10 September 1900
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Jewish
Profession:
painter
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Borissow, Poland
Date of immigration to Canada:
Tuesday, 2 November 1920
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1925
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-20 left
1937-05-02 arrived via French prison
Unit:
Trained with George Washington Battalion; Abraham Lincoln Battalion: one of 40 Canadians assigned to this battalion on 10 June 1937; Battalion staff Headquarters: runner at Brunete; Artillery; American Anti-tank Anti-aircraft Battery
Final status:
WIA 9 July 1937 at Quinto; Survived; Rejected by Colonel O'Kelly; Held in French camp; Fought in Israeli war in 1948; Remained in Israel
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 44-45; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 2, Delo 51, ll. 134 on transfer to the Lincolns; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Mangel, David, 3 pages, no date; Hoar; Liversedge; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Polik
