Milton Wolff papers, 1933-1993.

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Milton Wolff papers, 1933-1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502146229

Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, audio cassette, clippings, and books, upon other miscellaneous materials that include his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Part of the Spanish Civil War collection.

94 boxes, 4 manuscripts.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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SNAC Resource ID: 7622553

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Wolff, Milton

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Milton (Milt) Wolff (1915-2008) was born in Brooklyn, NY to a working-class family. He left school at fifteen and worked in the New Deal 's Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1934. He later found work in a Manhattan garment factory and became politically active through membership in the Young Communist League. When the Civil War broke out in Spain he responded to a YCL appeal for volunteers and sailed for Europe, aged 21, in March 1937. He initially served as a medic and then saw act...