Biography

Bombazzi, Giovanni (Bombes, Ivan; Bumbaz); b. June 19, 1908, Pula/Pola, Croatia; To the US 1926, entered illegally; South Slav; Father Antonio Bombazzi, mother Olga (Jelcic) Bombazzi; To Spain in 1937; Served with the Garibaldi Brigade, Rank Sargento; Known antifascist in his native Pola.

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Source: RGASPI; Italian; South Slav; La Spagna Nel Nostro Cuore; p. 91; Italian-American Volunteers From Istria and The Slovenian Hinterland of Trieste, From Appendix E in John Peter Kraljic’s The Croatian Community In North America and the Spanish Civil War