Henry Kraus

Henry Kraus (November 13, 1905 in Knoxville, Tennessee – January 27, 1995 in Paris) was an American labor organizer, journalist, and historian, and a European art historian.

The son of trade unionists who moved to Cleveland after his birth, Kraus was a member of the Young People's Socialist League. Kraus attended from the University of Chicago and received B.A. and M.A. degrees Western Reserve University in 1926 and 1927. He married Dorothy Rogin Kraus (1908-2001), a Jewish socialist emigre from Poland, whom he met in high school. Provided by Wikipedia