We met up with Jim Jump at the Marx Memorial Library in London. A wealth of knowledge, Jim is the chair of the International Brigade Memorial Trust and his father, a proud Merseysider, fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Category: London
Sam Lesser
Sam Lesser, formerly Russell, was born in 1918 in the East End of London. He was a legendary foreign editor of the Daily Worker and Morning Star, reporting for the latter from Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. He would go on to chair the International Brigade Memorial Trust.
Lou Kenton
Lou Kenton (1908-2012) was from Stepney, East London. He had eight brothers and was the first of his family to be born in the UK, after moving from Ukraine. He was the oldest surviving member of the International Brigades until his death. This interview is an extract from ‘The Real Band of Brothers’ a publication by Max Arthur, which tells the vebatim accounts of British members of the International Brigades. These are the real words of Lou performed by an actor.
Ada Louise (Penny) Feiwel
Ada Louise (Penny) Feiwel Born in Tottenham, London. Penny was stationed as a nurse in Albacete, and then Tarancon, east of Madrid, where she helped set up an improvised operating theatre. She was badly injured in 1938 when her biomedical station was bombed. She died in Bournemouth in 2011, aged 102. This interview is an extract from ‘The Real Band of Brothers’ a publication by Max Arthur, which tells the vebatim accounts of British members of the International Brigades. These are the real words of Penny performed by an actor.
Penny Feiwel, spoken about by Marlene Sidaway
Marlene Sidaway, speaking, is the President of the International Brigade Memorial Trust, and her husband David Marshall fought in the Spanish Civil War. We spoke to Marlene at the Marx Memorial Library in London where she told us about Penny Feiwel, born in Tottenham in 1909.