Correspondence with Wanda Gág, 1944.
Related Entities
There are 4 Entities related to this resource.
Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zt3mdr (person)
Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty. She was their second child, her older brother died in infancy. Her birth was announced on stage at the theatre her father was performing in during a Shakespeare play. The family travelled extensively during her formative years as her parents moved between the USA and UK with various touring theatre companies. At 13 she became a boarder at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, an independent ...
Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68051js (person)
Popular and prolific novelist Howard Fast was born in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants, and he worked odd jobs as a youth, crediting his love of reading to a job as a page at the New York Public Library. He published his first novel at eighteen, and found early success writing adventures set in America's past. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, writing for the radio program Voice of America. A Communist from about 1944-1956, Fast appeared before the H...
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v74066 (corporateBody)
The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC) emerged in 1941superseding several earlier committees and organizations that had been developed to secure humanitarian aid for refugees of the Spanish Civil War. Along with providing humanitarian aid, the JAFRC was “dedicated to the rescue and relief of thousands of anti-fascist fighters trapped in Vichy France, and North Africa so that they [could] return to the active fight against the Axis.” Dr. Edward Barsky, leader of American me...
Barsky, Edward K., 1895-1975
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6668mp6 (person)
Dr. Edward K. Barsky was a prominent surgeon who led a group of American medical volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. For further biographical information on Edward Barsky, and to review the scope and contents of his manuscript collection see, The Guide to the Edward K. Barsky Papers, ALBA 125. The images in this collection were either taken by Barsky and his assistant or accrued in the course of his work as a surgeon in Spain. From the guide to the Edward K. Barsky Photographs, ...
