Leon Acker discussed by Sylvia Acker

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Moving Image

Manny Harriman

July 23, 1985

First of two tapes containing interview with Sylvia Acker, widow of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran Leon Acker, who died in Spain in July 1938. Sylvia Acker was married to Leon Acker, who served with the Jewish battalion of the Dombrowski Brigade of Polish volunteers.

English

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archive

51:25

ALBA V 48-002 (Mixed Materials)

Box 1

ALBA.VIDEO.048

The Manny Harriman Papers (ALBA 048) contain project files related to these oral histories, including completed personal history questionnaires for many of the veterans interviewed.

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Manny Harriman Video Oral History Collection; ALBA VIDEO 048; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.