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| Last Name | Hakam |
| First/Middle Name | Harry |
| Ethnicity | |
| Ethnicity Note | |
| Immigration Status | |
| Religion | Jewish |
| POW | |
| AKA Last Name 1 | Hakim |
| AKA First / Middle 1 | |
| AKA Last Name 2 | |
| AKA First / Middle 2 | |
| DOB | 1913 |
| City | Brooklyn |
| State | New York |
| Foreign Nation | |
| Foreign Nation City | |
| Alt Pob State, City | |
| Family: Name | |
| Family: Relationship | |
| Family: Begin Date | |
| Family: End Date | |
| Family: Comments | |
| Education HS | |
| Education College / Univ 1 | |
| Education College/Univ Notes | |
| Education College/Univ 2 | |
| Graduate or Doctoral Work | |
| Graduate or Doctoral Work Notes | |
| Prior Military Service | |
| Passport # | 366472 |
| Passport Series | |
| Passport Reported Lost in Spain | |
| Passport Age | |
| Passport Date | |
| PP or Known Address Street | 244 East 15th Street |
| PP or Known Address City | New York |
| PP or Known Address State | New York |
| ALT City | |
| Alt State | |
| Sail Date | |
| Ship | Ile de France |
| Marital Status | |
| Marital Notes | |
| Vocation 1 | Electrician |
| Vocation 2 | |
| Vocation 3 | |
| Party Affiliation | YCL |
| Date Affiliation | 1935 |
| ALT Affiliation | |
| ALT date | |
| ALT affiliation 2 | |
| Arrival (in Spain) Date | |
| Units served with | XV BDE, Lincoln BN |
| Battle action | |
| Rank | |
| Returned Date | 1938 |
| Returned other | |
| WWII Service | Armed Forces |
| DOD | 1996 |
| Cause | |
| Place Died City | |
| KIA/MIA/Died other | |
| KIA/MIA/Died other Date | |
| KIA/MIA/Died other Location | |
| KIA/MIA/Died other Battle | |
| Additional Notes | (???)HARRY HAKAM 30 Dec 1912 Sep 1996 (V) 11234 (Brooklyn, Kings, NY) (none specified) 067-05-6059 New York |
Biography
Harry Hakam was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1913. His father was a building contractor. Hakam finished two years of college and three years of union courses in electrical engineering before sailing for Spain in February 1936. He was among the first Americans to join the International Brigades. In Spain, Hakam started out as a machine-gunner, then became a runner in a communications unit in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, taking part in the Jarama, Brunete and Aragon offensives. Later Hakam worked in the rear as an electrician. Hakam (who signed some of his letters "Yog De Von"), stayed in Spain until the International Brigades evacuated in September of 1938.
In World War II, Hakam was a frogman in the U.S. Navy, and afterward he continued a career as a journeyman electrician and union activist. He died in 1996.
- Biography courtesy of Tamiment Library, NYU. To view the finding aid to the Harry Hakam papers click here. To view letters sent from Harry to Marjorie Polon (part of the Marjorie Polon papers) during the war, click here. Also see the ALBA Digital Library.