Biography

Vogel, Joseph b. April 22, 1911, Turka, Poland; Polish; Jewish; Attended the National Academy of Design; Single; WPA Art Project NYC; Received Passport# 315392 on June 19, 1936 which listed his address as 34 Horatio Street, NYC; CP 1932; Served with the 86th BDE, 20th BN, Cordoba front; Shell shocked; Later at Albacete as artist on The Volunteer for Liberty; Repatriated medical for ulcers; Returned to the US on September 8, 1937 aboard the Paris; WWII US Army, combat cameraman and artist in both ETO and PTO; d. December 19, 1995, Roswell, New Mexico, buried in South Park Cemetery, Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico.

---

Sources: Scope of Soviet Activity; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 849, ll 28, List of American Comrades that have been Repatriated as per October 15 1937; Opis 6, Delo 1007,ll. 2, ver arc gen americ; Joseph Vogel to Adolph Ross, August 8, 1984; (obituary) The Volunteer, Volume 19, No. 2, Summer 1997, p. 7; L-W Tree Ancestry; Find-a-Grave# 132807770.