Sidney Kaufman Audio Collection Dec 24, 1977

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Sidney Kaufman Audio Collection Dec 24, 1977

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Sidney Kaufman served in the International Brigades in Spain from July 1937 through February 1939. Kaufman later served in World War II transporting troops in the South Pacific. He was a lifelong member of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. The collection contains three audio cassettes of Kaufman discussing his time in Spain.

0.05 linear feet; (3 audio cassettes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Kaufman, Sidney

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Sidney Kaufman was born in 1914. He was a merchant seaman working out of New York when he decided to volunteer for the International Brigades in Spain. Arriving in Spain in July 1937, Kaufman served as a runner with the British battalion, spent several months in the 35th artillery battery, and was commissar of an anti-tank battery attached to the Slavic battalion on the Aragon Front. In January 1939, when most International Brigaders were making their way out of the country, Kaufman...