Month: August 2012

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Rosenberg Jack & Harry

August 8, 2012 admin 0

  Jack and Harry Rosenberg The Rosenbergs were Cockney Jews, Jack born in early 1917 and Harry in 1919.  The brothers were active in the Hackney Workers Sports Club from 1933 and possibly before that the Clarion Cycle […]

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Pink Peter

August 29, 2012 admin 0

Peter Pink Peter Pink was born in 1929 at Stockwell, South London. His father was a policeman, leading to Peter being born in the police wing of Putney hospital. His father was posted to Southall […]

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Hess Hans

August 17, 2012 admin 0

  Hans Hess Hess was born in Erfurt in 1908 to Alfred and Tekla Hess. Alfred owned Germany's second largest shoe factory but had a socialist outlook and the young Hess was educated in a […]