And Abe Osheroff has died at the age of ninety-two. He was a lifelong political activist and one of the last remaining survivors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the 3,000 American volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Abe Osheroff’s activism began during the Great Depression, when he helped evicted tenants, and his activism continued to his final years. In 2006, he took part in a twenty-seven-hour sit-in at Senator Maria Cantwell’s office. This is an excerpt from his 1974 film Dreams and Nightmares.

Abe Osheroff: “My name is Abe Osheroff. I’m a carpenter and also a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. In 1937, I went to fight in Spain because I believed that unless fascism was stopped there it would lead to disaster. That estimate proved to be tragically correct.”