The South African Jewish Museum's archives (SAJM) Jewish Digital Archive Project is the digital component of the SAJM archive. It aims to maintain a record of Southern Africa's social, economic and political history. JDAP comprises personal narratives and special collections linked to organizations, local communities, and cultural events.
The Denis Goldberg Collection comprises, at a present, one interview with Denis Goldberg where he discusses his family history and migration to South Africa, his parent's political views and his own, and his time spent in the fight against the Apartheid regime, notably his experience as accused number 3 in the Rivonia Treason Trial, in South Africa between 1963 and 1964.
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.
The Denis Goldberg Collection comprises at a present one interview with Denis Goldberg where he discusses his family history and migration to South Africa, his parent's political views and his own, and his time spent in the fight against the Apartheid regime, notably his experience as accused number 3 in the Rivonia Treason Trial, in South Africa between 1963 and 1964.
The Elsie (Elsa) Menasce (nee Mizrahi) Collection consists of family photographs taken mostly in Cape Town, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), France, and the Menasce ancestral home of the Island of Rhodes, where only 151 Sephardic Jews were known to have survived the Holocaust. La Boutique Yvelle makes an appearance several times, and several photographs of the family at their Shabbat dinner and bar mitzvah ceremonies.
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.
The Elsie (Elsa) Menasce (nee Mizrahi) Collection consists of family photographs taken mostly in and around Cape Town, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), France, and the Menasce ancestral home of the Island of Rhodes, where only 151 Sephardic Jews were known to have survived the Holocaust. La Boutique Yvelle makes an appearance several times, and several photographs of the family at their Shabbat dinner and bar mitzvah ceremonies.. La Boutique Yvelle makes an appearance several times, and several photographs of the family at their Shabbat dinner, bar mitzvah ceremonies and other family occasions.
The Faiga Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by Eunice Faiga and contains videos of the Faiga family in various locations around South Africa and at family events.
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.
The Faiga Video Collection contains digitised footage. It was donated by Eunice Faiga and contains videos of the Faiga family in various locations around South Africa and at family events.
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.
The Feigels Photograph Collection comprises a number of photographs of the Johannesburg based deli and the Feigel family.
Whenever possible research has been conducted to enrich the information in these collections, if you have any additional information please contact us.