Biography
Chocheles, Isadore (Chockeles); b. November (October) 17, 1913, Lemberg, Austria (Poland), Naturalized through parents; Polish American; Single; Department Store Employee (Department store union), Journalist, and Seaman; CP January 1937 (YCL 1935); Received Passport# 360040 on January 6, 1937 which listed his address as 495 (405) Belmont Avenue, NYC; Sailed January 16, 1937 aboard the Paris; Arrived in Spain on January 26, (February 10) 1937; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln BN, Co. 2, Section 1, Rank Soldado; Later with the 77th Group of Artillery, 45th Division; Returned to the US on December 20, 1938 aboard the Ausonia; d. November 1995, Metairie, Louisiana.Source: Sail; Scope of Soviet Activity; Cadre; Lincoln; Voros-Jarama; RGASPI; L-W Tree Ancestry. Code A1
Photographs: Isadore Chocles in Spain, RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 679 (Carnet) and Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 872;