R.I.P. Abe Osheroff

Written by: DFA Staff on Apr 11, 2008 11:45 AM EDT

Here is Mr. Osheroff's obituary from the New York Times:

Abe Osheroff, a carpenter by trade and leftist provocateur by proclivity who was wounded in the Spanish Civil War, then helped keep alive the memory of that struggle with two documentary films and thousands of speeches, died on April 6 at his home in Seattle. He was 92.

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Mr. Osheroff’s last speech was in San Francisco on March 30, when he spoke from a wheelchair at the unveiling of a monument to the 3,000 American volunteers to fight Franco in what came to be called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Nine hundred were killed.

“The stuff we’re made of never goes away, with or without monuments,” he said in the old-time Brooklyn accent he never lost, Mr. Geist and other friends said. “Because the bastards will never cease their evil, and the decent human beings will never stop their struggle.”

Danny
Communications Director

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