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The Fanny Meyer Collection donated by Naomi Rapeport includes photographs and documents pertaining to the Blieden and Meyer Families. Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) was the 6th child of Yehuda Blieden and Yocheved Gittelson of Žagarė (Zhager) Lithuania. Soon after her birth, her father, Julius Blieden emigrated to South Africa. When she was 6 years old, her family were reunited in South Africa. Seven years later, her father died in Germany. She was devastated by his death and kept pressed flowers and ivy leaves brought back by her mother, from his grave site in Germany. These she kept to her dying day. She attended the Fanny Buckland School in Johannesburg, which subsequently became Johannesburg Girls’ School. She married AL Meyer in 1917 and had three children. Fanny accumulated many boxes of family photographs and she kept memorabilia pertaining to important events in her life.
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Portrait photograph of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden), Žagarė, Lithuania. She was the daughter of Julius and Yochved Blieden (nee Gittelson). She was born in Žagarė, Lithuania in 1891.
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Photograph of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) standing on the left and Nellie Lewis (nee Blieden) standing on the right, at their home at 20 Paul Nel Street, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. They were the younger daughters of Julius and Yochved Blieden (nee Gittelson).
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Photograph of dried ivy leaves and flowers taken from the gravesite of Julius Blieden, Weissensee Cemetery, Berlin, Germany in 1904. They were kept by his daughter Fanny Meyer until her death in 1981. Julius Blieden travelled from South Africa to Berlin to undergo surgery following a head injury. He died following the surgery and was buried in the Weissensee Cemetery.
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Photograph of John Blieden (holding the violin) and Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) (holding a doll), taken in Johannesburg. They were the children of Julius and Yochved Blieden (nee Gittelson).
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Photograph of the receipt of payment by the South African Blieden family for the maintenance of the grave of Julius Blieden at the Weissensee Cemetery, Friedhofs-Hauptkasse, Berlin, Germany for the year 1905 to 1906.
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Photograph of the receipt of payment by the South African Blieden family for the maintenance of the grave of Julius Blieden at the Weissensee Cemetery, Friedhofs-Hauptkasse, Berlin, Germany for the year 1908 to 1910.
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Portrait photograph of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden), 1891-1980, Johannesburg.
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Group photograph of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) and four generations, Johannesburg. Photographed left to right: Wilma Gluckman (nee Rapeport), Fanny Meyer holding her greatgrandchild Reuben Gluckman, and Zelda Rapeport (nee Meyer).
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The brochure of the Johannesburg High School Old Girl's Club School's 90th Anniversary Dinner. The school was known as Barnato Park. Fanny Meyer and her two daughters were Old Girls and attended the school dinner.
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Group photograph of the Meyer children taken outside the gate of the Johannesburg Zoo. Photographed from left to right: Zelda Rapeport (nee Meyer), Julian Meyer, Wilma Freinkel (nee Meyer).
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Group photograph of the Meyer family. Photographed from left to right: Wilma Freinkel (nee Meyer) (1920-1999), Julian Meyer (1918-1993), Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) (1891-1980) and Zelda Rapeport (nee Meyer) (1924-1999).
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The newspaper insertion announcing the Meyer Blieden engagement, Johannesburg 1916.
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Photograph of the grave of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) (1891-1980), wife of Abraham Leopold Meyer, daughter of Julius and Yochved Blieden (nee Gittelson), West Park Cemetery, Johannesburg.
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The ketubah of the marriage of Abraham Leopold Meyer and Fanny Blieden, United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg. Dated 7th January 1917.
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The newspaper article 'Popular Wedding' describing the wedding of Miss Fanny Blieden to Mr A. Leopold Meyer, Johannesburg, 1917.
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The invoice for the wedding dress for Miss Fanny Blieden, Johannesburg 1917.
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A handwritten note to Abraham Leopold Meyer and Fanny Blieden on the occasion of their marriage from Fanny's sister and brother-in-law, Julius and Helena Freda Blieden (nee Blieden) of Randfontein.
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Photograph of Fanny Meyer (nee Blieden) taken at her eightieth birthday with her eldest and youngest grandchildren, in Viljoenskroon, Free State. Photographed from left to right: Michael Meyer, Fanny Meyer, Susan Krowitz (nee Meyer).
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The wedding invitation of Abraham Leopold Meyer and Fanny Blieden, on the 7th January 1917, Johannesburg.
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