Probing a family history mystery
Photo credit: George Haber | George Haber’s uncle Louis Stoloff (lower right in the bottom row) left New York in 1937 to fight for the democratically elected government in the Spanish Civil War. The photo was taken in 1938, the year Stoloff was killed.
Seventy-five years ago today, June 2, 1937, Louis Stoloff left his home on the Lower East Side to fight fascism overseas.
He never returned.
Decades later, Stoloff's nephew began a quest to solve the mystery of what happened to him. In uncovering the details about the uncle he never met, George Haber opened a new chapter in his own life, becoming, in his mid-60s, a student of the conflict...
