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Blankfield Family Collection

  • Collection
  • YYYY-

The Blankfield Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by the Blankfield Family and contains 12 videos showing the Blankfield family on holiday around South Africa, Europe, America and Mozambique as well as weddings, birthdays, safari's and trips to the beach.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Bnoth Zion Collection

  • Collection
  • 2014

The Bnoth Zion Collection includes photographs and news clippings dating from the 1980s and 1990s. Bnoth Zion, an international women’s outreach organisation, is now known as WIZO (Women’s international Zionist Organisation). The images in this collection depict various events and meetings hosted by Bnoth Zion. Events documented in this collection include World Bible Day, W.P. Zionist Conference, Presenting Israel, Chairman’s Tea and AGMs. There are several prominent names, people, figures, rabbis, speakers, members, and artists featured in these photographs.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich these collections. If you have anything to add please contact us.

Boyd Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2013-

The Boyd Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by Wahne Boyd and contains videos of the Boyd family's travels around South Africa, family gatherings, and water sports.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Brozin, Collis and Finger Families Collection

  • Collection
  • 2015-

The Brozin, Collis and Finger Family collection consists of a number of photographs with various links and relationships between the three families.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections. If you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Burnett Collection

  • Collection
  • 2014-

The Burnett Collection is comprised of a single silver case, stamped with the arms of The Kings Royal Rifles from the British Army, containing several small photographs and a metal plaque with the name, rank and serial number of a Burnett in the 'Royal Regiment'. The photographs themselves depict a man - presumably Corporal Burnett - in and out of his military uniform circa 1946, and a single image of a woman. 

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections. If you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Castle Family Collection

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  • YYYY-

The Castle Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by Debbie Castle and contains three videos showing scenes of the Atlantic Seaboard in Sea Point and Muizenberg as well as a newsreel clip showing events in Port Elizabeth during the Second World War

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Chayela Rosenthal Collection

  • Collection
  • 2014-

The Chayela Rosenthal Collection comprises a number of photographs of Chayela and her career as an actress and singer. Included in this collection are a few personal documents, newspaper clippings, theatre posters and theatre playbills.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Cohen Family Chronicles Collection

  • Collection
  • 2021-

Introduction to the story of the extended Cohen family from Cape Town –
written by Gail Loon Lustig

Gittel and Hyman Isaac Cohen made Cape Town their new home after leaving Augsutov, a town in the north western corner of modern Poland, at the turn of the 20th century together with thousands of Jews from the Pale of Settlement.

All five of their children lived in Cape Town and its environs with only one, Joseph, leaving for a time to study in Scotland.

A list of the Cohen siblings and the names of their offspring:

Nahum: Mathie, Joyce and Miriam
Isidor: Zelda, Riva, Phyllis and Rita
Jack: Neville
Emily: Myer, Clare, Bernie and Mercia
Joe: remained single

Four of the five siblings, married, brought twelve children into the world who became the first generation of South Africans born of immigrant parents.

Growing up in the atmosphere of extended family who observed the traditions of their Jewish background, the cousins were familiar with the personal events, stories and fortunes of one another. They shared the natural beauty that Cape Town has to offer as well as many social frameworks at the time. They studied, married, had families of their own. Some left South Africa, most stayed on in Cape Town, Welkom and Johannesburg.

During these challenging times, as the entire world deals with the Covid pandemic, I decided to explore the history of our great grandmother, Gittel Cohen, after whom I am named. Gittel left Cape Town on her own in 1934 to live out her life in Palestine and be buried on the Mount of Olives where she believed Jews should be laid to rest.

The search for Gittel's life in Jerusalem has been fascinating. I discovered that she lived in a Moshav Zkenim (Home for the Aged) in the city between the years 1934-1943. Tracing the content of her life then took me to reading the local newspapers and studying the history of Jerusalem of that period.

It seemed quite natural that forming a group of Gittel and Hyman Isaac's great-grandchildren would be of interest to their great-grandchildren and indeed the response to "uniting" in coming together after so many decades, has been amazing.

Personal stories have been shared, the puzzle has been solved of the various histories and we can indeed feel that our roots stretching from 120 years ago have a rich and interesting narrative.
Much of this has been made possible by finding and 'reviving' Clare's Chronicles which she wrote in 1992 after being commissioned to do so by her cousin, Riva Bear's son, Michael.

Clare painstakingly researched and typed up the memoir that is being presented on the Kaplan site. It includes many anecdotes, snippets of intrigue about several of the personalities in our interesting family. The chronicle has been shared amongst all the Cohen descendants and was particularly vivid for the grandchildren of the first generation of Cohens in South Africa.

Following on the initial sharing, many stories were related amongst family members. We learnt that Joseph died very young and was buried in Muizenberg at the age of fifty-six. Since forming our group, we learnt that Clare, Emily's daughter had a son, Brian Norman Lurie whom she never met since he was put up for adoption. Clare's daughters traced their nephew Wayne Lurie, who lives in Johannesburg and has since joined our group.

Another important and special discovery was reconnecting to Neville Cohen, the son of Jack, the third brother, who, at the age of 91 lives, in Vancouver, Canada. Together with Rita Loon, Isador's daughter, aged 94, and who resides in Israel, they are the surviving grandchildren of Hyman Isaac and Gittel.

I have really enjoyed enabling my lovely family an opportunity to interact, share stories and ideas. The Cohens are truly a special group of creative, interesting, curious, conscientious, sincere thinkers, whose varied lives reveal the courage and enthusiasm of our roots. They stepped out into the world unafraid and with a positive attitude and inner strength that backed them up in so many different circumstances. I sincerely wish that this "tiny corner" of digital memory will be a place to visit for future generations whose curiosity needs fuel for thought.

Sincere thanks to Michael Bear for generously permitting the sharing of the document; to Shelley Wollach Zeevi for her support in pushing this project in the right direction; to Ian Friedland for scanning the Chronicle and forwarding it on to the family; to Rozzi Loon Budow for 'straightening it' on photoshop; to everyone else for their enthusiasm and feedback.

Thanks to Katie Garrun and Professor Adam Mendelsohn, director of the Kaplan Centre for finding a suitable niche for our memories!

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections. If you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Cutting Through The Mountain Collection

  • Collection
  • 1998

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.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you would like to add any additional information please contact us.

Danzig and Ruff Family Collection

  • Collection
  • 2015-

The Danzig and Ruff Family Collection comprises a number of family photographs, which includes individual and group portraits.

Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you have any additional information please contact us.

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