National Origin of Volunteers
The table below displays the national origin of the Jewish volunteers in the International Brigades.
-
-
Nationality AJEX Poland 2,250 United States 1,250 France 1043 Palestine 500 Germany 400 Britain 200-400 Belgium 200 Austro-Hungary 120-150 Canada 71 Soviet Union 53
-
Read more about this topic: Jewish Volunteers In The Spanish Civil War
Famous quotes containing the words national, origin and/or volunteers:
“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
—Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,—a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)