So Im using my roommates laptop, which is an Italian mac so if any weird symbols come out, blame it onnn the Italian macbook.
Polanksy, Samuel
(wont lie, I just randomly picked him out of the ALBA file list of people)
Basically this file was THE shortest file I have ever seen. It was a 1 paragraph email from someone asking to know more about Samuel Polansky. However, what they did reveal was that Samuel was born in Newark, NJ on June 7, 1914.
This then made me wonder (this is a sidenote by the way) of what his life must have been like during the Great Depression.
He had a clerk job but then left October 9, 1937 to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigades. He was a first aid man in the Lincoln Battalion it states.
This is the most interesting part. Polansky was "knwon for bravery" it says and then it gives an example. Basically he went through raining fire of bullets to pull a soldier out of danger who was up in front of him aways. He was then later captured during the retreat from Gandesa but was exchanged with 71 others on April 22, 1939. This is where the email ends.
With more research (from another persons file, if anyone is interested in the source, here is the link: http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/david-hyman-hy-wallach), the Battle of Gandesa was the first time blitzkrieg was used. In the book, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War by Di R. A. Stradling, it states that "all the prisoners were transferred to various points in north central Spain to the camp at San Pedro de Cardena, a monastary" so Im assuming our friend Samuel Polansky was also brought there.
Well, I have no more to say or record about Mr. Polansky so here my blog entry ends.
Adios.
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