Alternate name(s):
Howard
Date of birth:
Saturday, 1 October 1910
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Jewish
Profession:
nurse at Bellevue Hospital in NYC
Hometown(s):
Winnipeg, Manitoba; New York, United States of America
Education:
college for nursing, 4 years; working on a Bachelor of Science
Political affiliation:
Communist Party from January 1936, likely CPUSA
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-01-28
Unit:
35 Division front hospital; Hospital at Vic
Final status:
Survived; Returned to the US 31 December 1938 aboard the President Harding; WWII served as a nurse in the shipyards; Died 5 April 1998
Other:
Harris was in the first group of the American Medical Bureau volunteers to sail for Spain
Sources:
Sail; SACB; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 551, ll. 61-65; Opis 6, Delo 565, ll. 24 (fiche); Canadian; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Harris
