Marvin Penn

Marvin Penn
Alternate name(s): 
Penas; Pen; Palmer
Michael
Date of birth: 
Monday, 8 September 1913
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
Jewish
Profession: 
fur dresser; miner
Hometown(s): 
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Vilna, Lithuania
Date of Immigration to Canada: 
1926
Political affiliation: 
Young Communist League, 1930; But he says in interview with Mac Reynolds and letter to Judith Keene that he belonged to no party
Affiliations to union and social groups: 
Jewish Progressive Youth Club
Prior military experience: 
Militia in Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-02-20 sailed
1937-03-17 arrived
Unit: 
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; First aid work at Albacete; Later stationed at the Karl Marx barracks in Barcelona
Final status: 
WIA at Brunete; Survived; Returned to Canada in 1939; Involved with the MacPap Veterans Association (Toronto); Died in 2001
Sources: 

RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 563, ll. 82; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 86-89; Momryk; Petrou; Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, April 5, 2001

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