Abe Osheroff  (October 24, 1915 - April 6, 2008)




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Abe's last speech, at the unveiling of the San Francisco Monument to the Lincoln Brigade (3/30/2008) Listen with QuickTime
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A Brief Biography
(from the Seattle PI)
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Abe's Movies:

Dreams &
Nightmares
Abe's award winning 1974 film  
about the Spanish Civil War
(available in DVD w/new
introduction by Abe)


Art in the Struggle
for Freedom
Abe's film about the art,music, &
poetry of the Spanish Civil War
(only available in VHS)

To order these movies contact
gunneltclark@yahoo.com
From Gunnel Clark:  My dearest Abe is gone...
        The chair in the living room is empty, but I feel his
      presence everywhere and will for always.

         As I and our families and friends are full of sadness
    about Abe’s sudden death, we at the same time feel great
    joy about how he lived the last days of his life to capacity,
    true to his spirit.

         We undertook a seemingly impossible journey to San
    Francisco to attend the unveiling of the monument for the
    Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a beautiful creation of onyx
    plates, hung in iron frames and engraved with quotations and
    pictures from the Spanish Civil war. It was a “crazy” thing to
    do, but Abe was determined. After all, the trip to Spain in
    his youth was also a “crazy” undertaking.

         Traveling with us was our dear friends Howard Gale and
    Tony Geist. We could not have made the trip without them.

         We packed a rental van full of all the equipment needed
    to make the journey as comfortable as possible including his
    recliner chair with booster platform, his “home” for the last
    few years. It went with us everywhere, including to the
    monument in case he needed it.

         In Portland we met up with Abe’s daughter Sara and
    family, and in Berkeley we stayed with Abe’s son Dov and
    his family, joined by son Nick from Los Angeles. Thus he
    spent his last days surrounded by family and friends, soaking
    up all that love that he so craved and gave so freely, with one
    of his grand- daughters like a necklace around his neck and
    both granddaughters Isabel and Cleo entertaining him with
    puppet theater.

         At the unveiling of the monument Abe gave an inspiring
    speech, true to form.

         We made it safely home. Three days later Abe died of
    a heart attack. It all went very fast and I do not think he knew
    what was happening. I’m grateful that I was with him when he
    died and that he was allowed to die at home. It was a
    glorious ending of a beautiful life, well-lived.

         Thank you all for your love and friendship and please
    share your thoughts and comments with us on the blog we set
    up for that purpose: http://AbeOsheroff.blogspot.com
    I hope you’ll join us for a rousing celebration of
    Abe’s life 2:00 PM Sunday, May 25th at Seattle
    Town Hall (see top of page).
Above: Onyx panel, a part of the San Francisco Monument to the
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, March 30, 2008.

Left: Abe in Mississippi, summer of 1964.
Above, from left:  Marcos Armendariz, Tony Geist, Gunnel Clark, & Sara Osheroff with Abe in Portland, March 25, 2008.
Below: Unveiling of the National Monument to The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, located on The Embarcadero (in the M Justin Herman Plaza) in San Francisco,
March 30, 2008.  To see more pictures of the monument click here and here.
Above: Abe in Spain during the
Spanish Civil War.
Left: Abe and Gunnel with
their children and
grandchildren
    Recent media coverage of Abe (click on the underlined title to view the article or video):

The London Times (4/29):  Abraham Osheroff - Inveterate activist who fought in the Spanish Civil War and...

Associated Press (4/20):   U.S. honors Spanish Civil War Veterans