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Miriam Bloom Photograph Series

The Miriam Bloom Collection comprises a number of photographs of Miriam Bloom as a young women with friends in Cape Town, a small number of images take at Habonim camp and a small selection of family photographs.

Phyllis Friedlander Photograph Series

The Phyllis Friedlander Collection includes photographs depicting various aspects of her own and her family's life, such as her and husband Richard Friedlander's work as Mayor and Mayoress of Cape Town (1971-1973), social occasions and general family life.

Johannesburg History Photograph Series

The Johannesburg History Series includes images depicting various instances of Jewish life.

To begin with are the Courts, followed by the Cantors and Choirmasters. A large portion of the collection is focused on the Jewish Government School, which later changed its name to I. H. Harris School, as well as the Hebrew High School.

The Beth Din is the Jewish Court of Law. There is an image of the Johannesburg Beth Den in Grafton Road. There is also in image of the interior of the dilapidated Booysens Shul.

The Cantors and Choirmasters Association met on 8 August 1975. It was the opening of the Beit Hachazan. Beit means “house of the father” and hazan means “cantor”. The cantors present were Cantor Moshe Stern, Rabbi O Altshuler, Cantor Soberer and Rev J Chaitowitz.

The Hebrew High School was opened and consecrated in 1911. The old building is now a National Heritage Monument.

The Jewish Government School was a primary school which took in a high percentage of immigrant pupils and trained them for South African living. In 1966 the school changed its name to I. H. Harris School, named after one of their former headmasters. The function of the school remained the same. Many of the images in the collection feature school children in their sports teams, such as soccer, tennis and rugby, as well as standing with their awards.

Oudtshoorn Photograph Series

The Oudtshoorn Collection contains images one of the first Hebrew schools in Oudtshoorn conducted by Minister Rev. M Woolfson, a photograph of the house of Robert Sladowski, a Jewish merchant, and finally, a staff photograph of the early Oudtshoorn Hebrew/English school, the first Hebrew school to go up to standard five.

Potchefstroom Photograph Series

Consisting of a large number of photographs, the Potchefstroom Collection depicts various aspects of Jewish life, divided into seven sub-series named as General; Business; Marriages; Pioneers Day; Community Involvement; Sports and hobbies and The Arts

Cutting Through The Mountain Photograph Series

The Cutting Through The Mountain Collection, includes a small number of powerful photographs which pertain to interviews conducted for the book by Immanuel Suttner titled Cutting Through The Mountain (1997). This collection depicts Jewish stalwarts who fought in the Struggle against the South African apartheid regime. It is important to note that many of these activits had ties to the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress.

Pauline Potbrey was a trade unionist in search of communism.

Gill Marcus has had several political and Struggle milestones in her life.

Ronnie Kasrils was a central figure in the South African Communist Party. He functioned as head of military intelligence for the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe.

Rowley Arenstein was an attorney and a Marxist. He was served the longest banning order in the history of apartheid.

Shawn Slovo is a screenwriter who lives in London. Her parents Joe Slovo and Ruth First were involved with the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress in the Struggle against apartheid. Shawn Slovo wrote the award-winning feature film A World Apart, based on her childhood perceptions of the detention without trial of her mother Ruth First in the early 1960s.

Maxine Hart was active in a range of extra-parliamentary groups that opposed apartheid, including being a founding member of Jews for Justice.

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