Mark Straus Papers and Photographs 1927-1938

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Mark Straus Papers and Photographs, 1927-1938

Mark Straus Papers and Photographs 1927-1938

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Mark Straus (1909-1993) was a Jewish doctor and who served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. After graduating from the University of Alabama he moved to Paris and received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1936. A radical leftist, Straus went to Spain as part of the American Medical Bureau, Group IV, which arrived there in May 1937. Initially in charge of the Washington Battalion's medical unit, he went on to become chief medical officer for the 15th International Brigade. At the request of the Medical Bureau he returned to the U.S. on the S.S. Aquitania on July 12, 1938. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and photographs documenting Mark Straus's life before and during the Spanish Civil War. Some additional material relating to his brother and fellow physician Bernard Straus is also included.

0.25 linear feet; (1 box)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives