Alternate name(s):
Takacs
Tacacs
Taka
George
Date of birth:
Monday, 3 November 1902
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Hungarian
Profession:
moulder
Hometown(s):
Erteny, Hungart
Date of immigration to Canada:
Monday, 3 May 1926
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
Deported from Canada 19 March 1937
Unit:
13 Brigade; 51st Battalion; Front Line service at Gandesa at Ebro Front
Final status:
Injured in an auto accident 23 May 1938; Survived; Refused readmission to Canada by Colonel O'Kelly; Interned in a French Concentration Camp; Returned to Hungary
Other:
Deported from Canada in March 1937; Takacs says “I was deported from Canada. When they take me to the bord [sic] at Antwerpen, I escaped because they wanted to take me to a Fascist country, to Hungary”; Takacs went to a shop that had a Lenin poster and was directed to the Soviet Consul who sent him to the Paris IB Office. After interrogation, he was sent on to Spain
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 343, ll. 65-68, 72-3; Figueres List; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry
