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'''Myron Ehrenberg''' aka Mike Ehrenberg<ref>[http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/martin.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Fredericka Martin Papers]</ref> (July 25, 1907 - September 1977)<ref>U. S. Social Security Death Index</ref><ref>[http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/contemporary/cde.html Boston University Archives]</ref> was an American photographer and brother-in-law of the Soviet spy [[Samuel Krafsur]]. | '''Myron Ehrenberg''' aka Mike Ehrenberg<ref>[http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/martin.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Fredericka Martin Papers]</ref> (July 25, 1907 - September 1977)<ref>U. S. Social Security Death Index</ref><ref>[http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/contemporary/cde.html Boston University Archives]</ref> was an American photographer and brother-in-law of the Soviet spy [[Samuel Krafsur]]. | ||
| − | Ehrenberg was in the Communist Party and a member of the [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade]] and fought in [[Spain]] in the 1930s.<ref>[http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:RQEKkR4YxdoJ:www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf+Myron+Ehrenberg&cd=65&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Against Fascism - Jews who served in | + | == Biography == |
| + | Ehrenberg was in the Communist Party<ref>[http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/myron-ehrenberg Myron Ehrenberg Page at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives]</ref> and a member of the [[Abraham Lincoln Brigade]] and fought in [[Spain]], under the name of Mike Hill,<ref>''The Passionate War'', Peter Wyden, 1983, page 564.</ref> in the 1930s.<ref>[http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:RQEKkR4YxdoJ:www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf+Myron+Ehrenberg&cd=65&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Against Fascism - Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, Martin Sugarman, BA (Hons.), Cert. Ed. (Archivist of AJEX JewishMilitary Museum), page 45.]</ref><ref>Myron Ehrenberg Page at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives</ref> He married Ann Scoville, the sister of Soviet agent and TASS reporter, Samuel Krafsur's wife Dixie Elizabeth Scoville. | ||
| − | He died in Massachusetts in September | + | Ehrenberg's photographs were used in several books written by Dorothy Sterling a close friend and fellow Communist. These books were, ''Wall Street: The Story of the Stock Exchange'', ''Trees and Their Story'', ''Billy Goes Exploring'', ''The Story of Mosses, Ferns and Mushrooms'', and ''Tender Warriors''. |
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| + | He died in Massachusetts in September 1977.<ref>U. S. Social Security Death Index</ref> His widow Ann died at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts on March 9, 2004 at the age of 87. | ||
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| − | == External | + | == External links == |
* [http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/myron-ehrenberg ALBA Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives] | * [http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/myron-ehrenberg ALBA Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives] | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:37, July 12, 2016
Myron Ehrenberg aka Mike Ehrenberg[1] (July 25, 1907 - September 1977)[2][3] was an American photographer and brother-in-law of the Soviet spy Samuel Krafsur.
Biography
Ehrenberg was in the Communist Party[4] and a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in Spain, under the name of Mike Hill,[5] in the 1930s.[6][7] He married Ann Scoville, the sister of Soviet agent and TASS reporter, Samuel Krafsur's wife Dixie Elizabeth Scoville.
Ehrenberg's photographs were used in several books written by Dorothy Sterling a close friend and fellow Communist. These books were, Wall Street: The Story of the Stock Exchange, Trees and Their Story, Billy Goes Exploring, The Story of Mosses, Ferns and Mushrooms, and Tender Warriors.
He died in Massachusetts in September 1977.[8] His widow Ann died at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts on March 9, 2004 at the age of 87.
References
- ↑ Fredericka Martin Papers
- ↑ U. S. Social Security Death Index
- ↑ Boston University Archives
- ↑ Myron Ehrenberg Page at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
- ↑ The Passionate War, Peter Wyden, 1983, page 564.
- ↑ Against Fascism - Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, Martin Sugarman, BA (Hons.), Cert. Ed. (Archivist of AJEX JewishMilitary Museum), page 45.
- ↑ Myron Ehrenberg Page at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
- ↑ U. S. Social Security Death Index