Alternate name(s):
Saul B. Newton
Nickname:
Sol
Date of birth:
Friday, 22 June 1906
Marital status:
married to Myrtle Cohen
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Jewish
Profession:
social worker
Hometown(s):
Montreal, Quebec; Chicago, Illinois; Saint John, New Brunswick
Education:
university graduate, University of Wisconsin
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of the United States of America, 1933
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-30 over the Pyrenees
Unit:
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 3, Section Leader; 4 Group Artillery, 35 Battery, paymaster; Sargent, from February 1938; Served at Aragon, Fall 1937, Levante in May-June 1938
Final status:
WIA 13 October 1937 at Fuentes de Ebro, hospitalized from 15 October 1937 to 25 February 1938 at Benicasim, Casa Roja, Murcia, Villanueva de la Jara; Survived; Returned to the US on 18 February 1938; World War II US Army, European Theatre of Operations; Died December 1991, Brooklyn, New York
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 545, ll. 16-23; Mac-Paps; Momryk; Petrou; "Saul Newton, 85, Psychotherapist And Leader of Commune, Dies," New York Times, December 23, 1991; Hoff
