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Hyman Wallach: The Strongest Man in San Pedro by Vincent Londoño
Vincent Londoño HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Hernández-Ojeda Hyman Wallach: The Strongest Man in San Pedro by Vincent Londoño Personal Statement I first found out about Hyman Wallace by chance while looking through the documents in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade’s digital archives. Looking through the letters he had written about his experiences I was amazed when I read about his experiences after his capture by the fascists, and how while imprisoned at the Concentration camp San Pedro de Cardenas, he kept spirits high by taking bets on which nationality of prisoners would be released next, offering to push a coin across the filthy floor of their quarters if he…
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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…
