Nancy "Nan"
Green nee Farrow
Place of birth: Beeston, Nottingham, England
Year of birth: 9th November 1904
Political organisation: CP '34 & NUWM & NUC
Occupation: Ran a second-hand bookstall/shorthand typist
Date of arrival: July 1937
Date of departure: October 1938
Date of death: 16th April 1984 - London, England
Comments: Followed her husband, George Green to Spain, where he was killed at the Ebro. Helped organise the Valdeganga convalescent home with Frank Ayres. Served as a medical administrator at Huete, Valdeganga, and Uclés, then on the Ebro front. She also had an unfortunate run-in with an Austrian doctor called Krushmar who had sexual designs on her and, when rebuffed, accused her of being a Trotskyist. Accompanied a group of Republican child refugees to Mexico. 1943-1950 Secretary of the International Brigade Association. Dedicated her life to progressive causes. A short lived second marriage to communist journalist Ted Brake ended in 1960.
Source: RGASPI 545/6/88/13 & 545/6/142/88-98.
"A Chronicle of Small Beer; The Memoirs of Nan Green" by Nan Green.
