Up from the cellar by Lini M. De Vries 1979 Autobiography FBI Communist WWII

Up from the cellar by Lini M. De Vries 1979 Autobiography.
Lini M. De Vries (1905-1982) was born Lena Moerkerk on July 25, 1905.In the early 1930s she worked as a social worker and nurse at the Hospital for Joint Diseases and the Margaret Sanger birth control clinic. In 1935, De Vries joined the Communist Party.De Vries served as a volunteer nurse with the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, arriving in Spain in January 1937 with the first American Medical Unit. Upon her return to the United States several months later, she went on a national speaking tour to raise funds for the anti-fascist cause. She worked as a nurse and public health educator, Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, De Vries was monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) due to her Communist affiliations. Unable to obtain employment due to blacklisting, she relocated to Mexico in 1949 where she lived for the remainder of her life working as a public health advocate and educator.