Irene Goldin

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Mabel Irene Goldin (occasionally also Golden ), married. Spiegel (born January 10, 1910 in Brooklyn , New York City ( USA ); died January 15, 2004 in Vienna ) was an American nurse . She was a member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and was part of the Resistance in World War II .

Life

Irene Goldin grew up in Hartford , Connecticut and trained as a registered nurse. She was a member of the CPUSA and joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade "to fight against fascism". In May 1937 she went with other, later brigadists, on the Normandie passenger ship to France and on by train to Spain. As a nurse, she first worked in Huete in the province of Cuenca , then near the front in El Escorial and Teruel as well as in larger hospitals of the International Medical Service. In the British hospital of Mataró she met the Viennese student Harry Spiegel , who had been wounded in the Battle of the Ebro , and married him in September 1938. In February 1939 she and her husband were caring for wounded brigadists.

After the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the common escape to Marseille in France, she tried in vain to get a USA visa for her husband. When Harry Spiegel was interned as an "enemy alien", she obtained his release. In Château de la Guette near Paris, the Spiegels, who were themselves Jews, looked after Jewish refugee children from Germany and Austria. After the German occupation of France, the couple fled to the "free" south and found shelter with other Spanish fighters in Cazaux-Debat in the Pyrenees. There she gave birth to her son Peter in 1941. Her husband worked as a woodcutter and charcoal burner . They joined the Resistance and from 1943 worked under false names in an office of the German Navy in Marseille. From late 1945 to 1947, Irene headed the USC office for refugee aid for Unitarians in Marseille. In 1947 she returned to the USA for a year and then went to live with her husband in Vienna.

publication

  • The milk ration. A memory of exile and resistance in France , trans. by A. Reinfrank, in: Zwischenwelt , magazine of the Theodor Kramer Society , 17th year 2000 No. 1, pp. 31–34

literature

Movie

  • Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War , documentary by Julia Newman, USA 2002, 58 min.
  • To go to meet , documentary by Juan Acarin, Spain 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renée Lugschitz: Spain fighters: foreign women in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 , series Politics and History Vol 7, Lit Verlag, Berlin Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-50404-3 , page 190
  2. ^ Mabel Irene Goldin , Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
  3. ↑ a b c The case of Noel Field : Key figure of the show trials in Eastern Europe , Volume 1, Basisdruck Verlag GmbH, 2005, p. 315 note 69 Online , accessed on October 10, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Landauer: Lexicon of the Austrian fighters in Spain: 1936-1939 , introduction, p. 37 f. Online (PDF; 670 kB), accessed on October 14, 2013
  5. ^ Esther Silverstein Blanc: Wars I Have Seen: The Play, in Three Acts, with Selected Short Stories , Volcano Press, 1996, pp. 102 ff. Online , accessed on October 14, 2013
  6. ↑ Linda Palfreeman: Salud !: British Volunteers in the Republican Medical Service During the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 , Sussex Academic Press, Brighton & Eastbourne 2012, ISBN 1845195191 , p. 156
  7. ↑ a b c Les bûcherons et charbonniers de Cazaux-Debat , amisdecazaux.fr, accessed on October 14, 2013
  8. ^ Martin Sugarman: Against Fascism - Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (PDF; 1.9 MB), Jewish Virtual Library
  9. ↑ Between world . Register of the years 1984 - 2004 (PDF; 359 kB), Austrian National Library , accessed on October 14, 2013
  10. ^ Into The Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War , website for the film, accessed October 14, 2013
  11. ^ Fighting Fascism: The Americans - Women and Men - Who Fought In the Spanish Civil War , broadcast on the film on Democracy Now , accessed October 14, 2013
  12. ^ Series I: Julia Newman: "Into the Fire" Resources , "The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives", New York University , accessed October 14, 2013
  13. ^ To go to meet , Imperial War Museum , accessed October 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Goldin, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldin, Mabel Irene (full name); Golden, Irene; Spiegel, Irene (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Spain fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2004
Place of death Vienna