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Robert Louis Dickman

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  • 1909-1942

Robert Louis Dickman (1909-1942) served in the Cape Town Highlanders Regiment during World War Two and fought in the Western Desert Campaign (Libya). He was assigned to Unit “A” Coy. He died at the age of 33 years of wounds received during an air attack on the "A" Coy, in the vicinity of the Libyan town of Acroma when the “A” coy was attacked by 3 enemy aircraft at about 14:00 p.m.on the 11th February 1942. He died of wounds to his thigh and foot in 62 General Hospital. The town of Acroma was one of the towns where the British Eighth Army advanced fueling stations and airfields were located. His death notice states that he was killed in action near Gazala, Cyreneica. He is buried in Tobruk War Cemetery, Libya

Robert Louis Dickman was the son of David and Esther Dickman (nee Zeppa) of 70 Upper Mill Street, Cape Town. He was survived by his mother, and siblings Gertrude Ellert (nee Dickman), Philip Dickman, Freda Dickman, Harold (Harry) Charles Dickman, Reuben Dickman and Rebecca Dickman. His profession was that of a salesman and he was unmarried..
A number of soldiers serving in the Cape Town Highlanders died during this attack. They included Louis Jacob Steinberg (1916-1942), son of Joseph Meyer and Flora Steinberg, of 1 Glen Court, Maitland, Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in Paarl, Cape Province and was a Commercial Artist for Ackermans Ltd.
[Source: SA War Graves Project].

Rabbi Moses Chaim Mirvish

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  • 1872-1947

Minister of the Cape Town Orthodox Hebrew Congregation (the Beth Hamedrash HaChodesh), then sited in the Constitution Street Synagogue in District Six, from 1908. He was the first fully qualified rabbi (with Smicha) in the Cape Colony.

Benjmain Pogrund

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  • 1933-

Benjamin Pogrund was raised in Cape Town, and began his career as a journalist in 1958, writing for The Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg, where he eventually became deputy-editor. The Rand Daily Mail was the only newspaper in South Africa at that time to report on events in black South African townships. During the course of his work Pogrund came to know the major players in the apartheid struggle and gained the respect and confidence of various leaders and members of struggle resistance groups.

Pogrund consistently reported on Apartheid activities and was imprisoned once and considered a threat to the state. Pogrund currently lives in Israel and has published many books including a memoir of fellow human rights activist and friend Robert Sobukwe [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Pogrund].

Naomi Rapeport

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Naomi Schamroth Rapeport is a retired specialist physician with an interest in South African history, South African Jewry, and genealogy. She has compiled extensive documentation regarding her ancestors who came to South Africa from Lithuania, Belarus, and Courland in the late 1880s. Some partook in the Anglo Boer War and others in the Second World War. The families all left a footprint in South Africa, having contributed towards the Jewish and wider communities in various ways. Most of their descendants subsequently emigrated from South Africa to Israel, United States of America, and some of the Commonwealth countries.
Since her retirement, she has collaborated with the South African Jewish Museum Digital Archives Project helping to source documents from various international archives regarding the South African families whose photographic collections are exhibited on the museum website. She also does voluntary work with the Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, Israel, helping to document the contribution of South African Jewry in the war effort.

Jack Rapeport

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Jack Rapeport was born in Rustenburg and lived there for 40 years. In 1952, he took over the business ‘W Rapeport and Son (Pty) Ltd’, a clothing outfitters and drapers store. He modernized the business, to keep up with international trends and traveled regularly abroad to source merchandise. In 1965 he sold the business to Uniewinkels Beperk. A year later he moved to Durban and with his wife set up ‘Off the Peg’, which specialized in ladies fashion wear. The business was expanded to include a mail order department. In 1973, he sold the business to Scotts Shoes. He and his wife then set up ‘Up and Coming’ a children's clothing chain, which he again sold to Scotts Shoes a few years later.

His last business venture, ‘Rag Trade’, catered for women's wear and was sold to ‘Big Blu’. He kept up contact with people from Rustenburg, including the African community of Tlhabane Township. Following Aliyah to Israel he was involved in the establishment of the Haifa lawn bowling club which catered for disabled and blind bowlers.

Alex Abrahams

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Alex Abrahams is a trained curator and artist from Cape Town. Alex graduated with a BA Honours in Curatorship from University of Cape Town in 2015. Since then he has worked in a number of internships, which required skills in exhibition making, design, data analysis and research. Alex is also pursuing his art career with great commitment. He exhibited in seven group exhibitions in 2021, which was his debut year for exhibiting his art.

Mendel Kaplan

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  • 1936-2009

Mendel Kaplan was a prominent leader of the South African Jewish community, an industrialist executive with the firm Cape Gate, philanthropist and community activist. Mendel Kaplan was born in South Africa. After graduating from Wynberg Boys' High, he received a degree in law from the University of Cape Town in 1958 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1960.

Kaplan was the honorary president of Keren Hayesod and a former chairman of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors. He financed numerous philanthropic projects in South Africa, Israel and Jewish communities around the world. In 1980, he founded the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town. In 2000, he established the South African Jewish Museum.

Mendel Kaplan passed away on 19 November 2009. [Source: https://www.jpost.com/; https://en.wikipedia.org/]

Leon Glaser

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Leon Glaser, great grandson of Tzvi Hirsch Shewach Glaser and Devora Glaser (nee Behrmann). The Glaser family emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa from Lithuania. They had 9 children. Their daughter Rebecca Zuckerman (nee Glaser) was one of the founders of the first women’s Zionist Societies in South Africa, the Bnoth Zion. Their son Abram (Abraham) served in the Colonial Defence Force. He married Rebecca Feinstein in 1904. Their grandson was Leon Glaser. [Source: 1. The Jewish Chronicle London, May 30 1958].

Elsie Menasce

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Elsie Menasce (nee Mizrahi), daughter of Jacques Mizrahi and Violetta Mizrahi (nee Hasson) was born in Rhodesia where her family immigrated from the Island of Rhodes in the 1920's. The family maintained a strong connection with their Rhodian roots. Elsie Menasce (nee Mizrahi) published a cookbook, ‘The Sephardi Culinary Tradition’ which illustrate the history of the Jews from Rhodes, their customs regarding each recipe and it was illustrated with tableware passed down from generations. Elsie Menasce died on the 6th April 2019 in Toronto, Canada.

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