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Born: 21 Sep 1907 New York (City), New York (State), United States of America (USA)
Died: 17 Jul 1980 New York (City), New York (State), United States of America (USA)
Gender: Male
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Heritage: Jewish; Ukrainian
Arrived in Australia: 1943
Departed from Australia: 1944
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Harry Roskolenko was the thirteenth of the fourteen children of Barnett and Sara Roskolenko who migrated from the Ukraine to New York City. Growing up amid the poverty of the Lower East Side, Roskolenko was working in a factory at nine and ran away from home at thirteen. He travelled extensively in the Merchant Marine from 1920-1927. By the 1930s he was back in New York, a self-educated poet and Trotskyite. Nan Albinski writes: "His poetry was published in Poetry (Chicago) (as Roskolenkier), Par....

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