Myron Ehrenberg
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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 in the 1930s.[5][6] He married 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 of 1977.[7]
References
- ↑ Fredericka Martin Papers
- ↑ U. S. Social Security Death Index
- ↑ Boston University Archives
- ↑ Myron Ehrenberg Page at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
- ↑ Against Fascism - Jews who served in TheInternational 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