Platkin, Mary Louise.

Biography

Platkin, Mary Louise. (Platkun; Plotkin); b. March 21, 1911, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Massachusetts); AMB; Nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Illinois; Received Passport# 414724 on May 17, 1937 which listed her address as 1734 North 11th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Arrived in Spain on May 29, 1937; Served with the Republican Medical Service at Benicasim and Mataro. Repatriated on August 26, 1938; Returned to the US on December 23, 1938 aboard the Aquitania.
Sources: Scope of Soviet Activity; RGASPI 545, 6, 964; L-W Ancestry
Photograph: Chicago Tribune, May 16, 1937, p. 6