Volunteers
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Volunteer Vincent Lossowski by Student Mei Meadow
Mei Meadow HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Maria Hernández-Ojeda Vincent Lossowski Personal Statement While researching the life and involvement of Vincent Lossowski in the Spanish Civil War, I initially came upon several interesting facts about his numerous military services and affiliation with the Communist Party online; however, it was only when I interviewed Paul Lossowski, Vincent Lossowski’s son, and read more personal artifacts such as letters between him and his mother and wife during his time in Spain that I achieved a better understanding of who Vincent Lossowski was. More formal correspondences and newspaper clippings from after the war documented the harassment by the U.S. government that Lossowski experienced for…
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Milton Wolff
Rafid Amin HONS 2011J Hunter College-CUNY Professor Hernández-Ojeda Milton Wolff Personal Statement Milton Wolff first caught my eye when I watched the documentary The Good Fight (1984) with classmates in our Spanish Civil War in Literature, Film and Art course, led by Professor Maria Hernandez-Ojeda. We watched the documentary fairly early into the semester and so, I did not know much about the Spanish Civil War yet. At first, I was interested and awed by the fact that we were watching a documentary involving veterans from a war that happened almost eighty years ago. Milton Wolff, as well as several other volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, made an…
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James Neugass
Danielle Dimmler HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Hernández-Ojeda James Neugass Personal Statement To most (including me), the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was simply a group of nearly 3,000 men and women who traveled to Spain to fight the war against Fascism from 1936-1939. It was not until I randomly came across James Neugass – a volunteer who lived a little over one mile from where I currently reside while he lived in New York City – did this assignment become real. After digging through documents at the Tamiment Library, this connection I felt with Neugass grew exponentially. His slight humor towards his time in Spain made researching even more enjoyable.…
