Gerassi, John. John Gerassi oral history collection, 1980.
Title:
John Gerassi oral history collection, 1980.
This collection contains 227 audiocassettes consisting of 89 separate interviews with individual veterans. The average taping session was 7 hours and there are multiple tapes associated with most of the interviews. The interviews cover the following topics: family background and political affiliations, their motivations for joining the International Brigades, experiences and impressions of Spain, instances of discrimination and harassment during WWII and subsequently during the McCarthy era. Included are oral history interviews with the following individuals: Bill Bailey, Alvah Bessie, Robert Colodny, Archie Brown, Walter Dent, Milt Felsen, Moe Fishman, John Gates, Carl Geiser, Robert Gladnick, Irving Goff, Syd Harris, Ocsar Hunter, Admiral Kilpatrick, Edward Lending, Vincent Lossowski, Carl Marzani, John Murra, Steve Nelson, Lou Ornitz, Rosario Pistone, Herman Rosenstein (a.k.a. Gabby Klein), Walter Scheutrum, Morris Stamm, Robert Steck, George Watt, Irving Weissman, and Milton Wolff. Although the oral history interviews were chiefly conducted with combat veterans, there are also several interviews with women who like Salaria Kee O'Reilly, Nan Green, and Rose Wachsman Sorkin, who served in the medical units or, in the lone case of Evelyn Hutchins, as a driver. The collection also includes three tapes with spoken research notes that Gerassi recorded during his visits to libraries and archives at Brandies University, Cleveland University, and the Toronto Public Library, as well as a tape of the Veteran's of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 43rd Anniversary event honoring African-American volunteers. An additional tape documents Gerassi's contract with Ray Villis, his principal interviewer on the project.
ArchivalResource:
227 sound cassettes.
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