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Ben Gardner

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
Support
Communism Anti-Fascism
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Biography

Ben Gardner was an anti-fascist sentenced to a year at the Holmesburg workhouse for picketing the German consulate at Philadelphia in 1934, in the campaign to free the imprisoned German Communist leader Ernst Thaelmann.

Case

Arrested: 1934
Sentence: Jailed in the anti-Nazi campaign.
Convicted: Yes