Age 44. 55 Nahant Avenue, Revere, MA. Born (as Motel Gorovatte) on 1/15/1898, in Volinsky, Russia. Died of burns (death certificate). Newsstand operator, Haymarket Square and Union Street subway station, Boston. His remains were identified at Northern Mortuary in Boston. Reportedly attended the club in an unnamed party of friends. Beverly Evening Times, Beverly, MA, 11/30/1942: "One of the strange coincidences of the tragic Boston fire was the fact that Max Gorvine...who was killed, has a brother, Maury Gorvine...who lives in the same house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Downer who were also killed" (refers to victims Mr. Gerald Downer, age 27, and his wife Virginia, age 24, of Beverly). Was next-door neighbors on corner streets (1940 federal census) with fire victim Miss Pauline Hyman, age 18, no other known connection. To the U.S. in 1913. Name was officially changed upon his May 1927 U.S. naturalization. Wife former Mary Cohen, age 49 (Born 10/12/1893. Died as Mary Paris on 5/11/1978, age 84), was not present. Survived by a daughter Estelle, age 12. At 4' 9½," 142 lbs. (WWII draft registration, February '42) was by far the shortest male club occupant among those with WWII draft registrations (includes nearly all men present except those already in military service or born starting in 1925) and the shortest male fire casualty. Obvious physical characteristics (WWII draft registration): "hunchback." With the above Miss Hyman were two of seven Grove victims from the north shore city of Revere (also Miss Josephine Camusi, age 30, Robert Freede, age 51, club bartender Paul Mikalonis "Mitchell," age 27, Miss Doris Rosenbaum, age 19, and Jacob Schwartz, age 32). Parents Mrs. Celia, of Revere, and the late Mr. Samuel Gorvine (formerly Gorovatte). Burial at Fuller Street (Revere) Cemetery, Everett, MA.

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