Biography
k-Menis, Salvatore. b. March 27, 1902, Izola/Isola Istria, Slovenia, To the US 1926; South Slav; Father Giovanni Menis, mother Margherita (Delise) Menis; Maritime worker and Organizer; Domicile New York; Served in the XV BDE, Lincoln BN, later to the Garibaldi Brigade; Killed in action July 1937, Brunete. La Spagna Nel Nostro Cuore Italian-American Volunteers From Istria and The Slovenian Hinterland of Trieste.
Sources: RGASPI “Salvatore Menis,” Fond 545, Opis 3, File 453; La Spagna Nel Nostro Cuore, p. 305; I nostri volontari in Spagna, 227 and 229; “Italiani caduti in Spagna,” 129; Appendix E in John Peter Kraljic’s The Croatian Community In North America and the Spanish Civil War.
Sources: RGASPI “Salvatore Menis,” Fond 545, Opis 3, File 453; La Spagna Nel Nostro Cuore, p. 305; I nostri volontari in Spagna, 227 and 229; “Italiani caduti in Spagna,” 129; Appendix E in John Peter Kraljic’s The Croatian Community In North America and the Spanish Civil War.