Biography
Lazarus Marcowitz was from Brooklyn, New York. Lazarus Marcowitz was drafted in 1918 and imprisoned as a conscientious objector at Fort Leavenworth before his release in 1919.
The September 1919 Liberator identifies L. B. Marcowitz among the associate editors of the Wire City Weekly, a typewritten and carbon-copied newspaper produced by political prisoners at the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks. Its articles, poems, classes, sporting reports and humor formed part of the inmates’ intellectual and political life. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1919/09/v2n09-w19-sep-1919-liberator.pdf#page=49
The Revolutionary Age of August 9, 1919 prints a letter received by the National Left Wing Conference on June 21, 1919 from political prisoners confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It lists Lazarus B. Marcowitz among Socialist Party members, endorsing the letter's support for the Left Wing and its political aims. June 21 is the conference's receipt date, not an admission or release date; no individual charge or measured custody total is supplied.
The September 1919 Liberator identifies L. B. Marcowitz among the associate editors of the Wire City Weekly, a typewritten and carbon-copied newspaper produced by political prisoners at the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks. Its articles, poems, classes, sporting reports and humor formed part of the inmates’ intellectual and political life.
The compilation’s Lazarus B. Marcowitz entry reports an imposed fifteen-year term in the existing conscientious-objector prosecution and sentence remission on August 20, 1919. It identifies the Special Board interview at the disciplinary barracks and court-martial number 117635. The remission date is a legal event, not a newly established physical discharge or completed duration.
Anne M. Yoder, World War I Conscientious Objector Database, Lazarus Marcowitz entry (retained CSV row 1273).
