Nickname:
Harry
Date of birth:
Saturday, 16 January 1909
Marital status:
later married Evelyn Linwood
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Jewish
Profession:
chauffeur; writer; journalist
Hometown(s):
Montreal, Quebec
Education:
high school
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Spain; A letter to "Saturday Night" magazine says he was active in an anti-Communist Zionist youth organization
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-06-11 left
1937-08-06 arrived
Unit:
Medical Unit; Ambulance driver; Last unit Army of the Ebro, Evacuation Section; Served at Quinto, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Palaguer and the Ebro Offensive
Final status:
WIA; Survived; Served in the US Army during World War II; Died in 1996
Other:
Spoke Yiddish, English, French and Spanish; Montreal poet AM Klein dedicated a series of three Spanish Civil War poems published in Canadian Forum—"Of Castles in Spain: To One Gone to the Wars," "Of Castles in Spain: Toreador," "Of Castles in Spain: Sonnet Without Music"—to his childhood friend Abramson.
Sources:
Figueres List (including First Evacuation Group); NAC, M-P Collection, Hoar, V. 1, F. 2 Correspondence, n.d, 1968; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 541; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff
