Biography
k-Lipton, David Raphael. (Lipschipsht); 23 years old; YCL; Received Passport# 532307 on May 16, 1938 which listed his address as 2144 Crotoana Parkway, Bronx, New York; Arrived in Spain via Massanet on May 29, 1938; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN, Co. 3; Killed in action August 20, 1938, Sierra Pandols, Ebro Offensive.
Sources: Scope of Soviet Activity; Figueres List; (memorial notice) Daily Worker, December 21, 1938, p. 5; Eunice Lipton, “Tracking a Ghost,” The Volunteer, Volume 19, No. 1,Winter 1996-97, pp. 16-17.
Photographs: David Lipton, family photo; and Lipton, Lincoln-Washington, Company 3, Gandesa, August 1938. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-1682. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
Sources: Scope of Soviet Activity; Figueres List; (memorial notice) Daily Worker, December 21, 1938, p. 5; Eunice Lipton, “Tracking a Ghost,” The Volunteer, Volume 19, No. 1,Winter 1996-97, pp. 16-17.
Photographs: David Lipton, family photo; and Lipton, Lincoln-Washington, Company 3, Gandesa, August 1938. The 15th International Brigade Photographic Unit Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 11; ALBA Photo number 11-1682. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.