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Tributes paid to Leeds communist Harvey Wagenheim
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TRIBUTES have been paid to a Leeds communist who has died at the age of 89.
Harvey Wagenheim joined the Young Communist League as a young man in the 1940s. His parents, Sam and Chloe, were communists who moved to Leeds from north-west England. His grandparents came to Britain from Lithuania.
After leaving school he worked for 20 years in the tailoring industry including for Burton’s at a time when Leeds was recognised as the heart of the industry worldwide.
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