1. Berea Street Shul
2. Bnoth Zion Children's Mannequin Parade, (Cape Town, Vredehoek Branch), 1948
3. Chaim Weizman's visit to South Africa, 1932
4. Jewish Rhodesia Reserve Volunteers, 1916
5. Members of the Abelsky and Gordon families, Cape Town 1902
6. The Pretoria IUA campaign committee, 1969
7. Pretoria photograph
8. Pretoria Zionist Council Executive, 1950
9. State of Israel flag, 1949

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Berea Street Shul Opening of the Hebrew School of the Berea Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg, 8 October 1933.

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Pretoria Photograph taken in Pretoria, circa 1905 Photograph kindly provided by Vanessa Jaffe [jerbi@inter.net.il]

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Jewish Rhodesia Reserve Volunteers Winners of Capt. P.B.S. Wrey's Inter Section Competition May, 1916

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Members of the Abelsky and Gordon families, Cape Town 1902

In September 2003, Jacqueline Waldstein Schwab wrote: I've identified Abelsky relatives from Kamajai and Gordon family members from Rokiskis, Lithuania. Both families left to settle in Worcester, Massachussetts, U.S.A., within a few years. Maybe someone can identify their own family members in this photograph.

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The Pretoria Israel United Appeal Emergency Solidarity Campaign committee 1969

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Pretoria Zionist Council Executive With His Excellency The Israeli Foreign Minister and Mrs. Sharett Visit to Pretoria, May 1950

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Flag from the first anniversary of the State of Israel celebration in Pretoria, 1949

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On 12 February 2002, Roy Ogus wrote:

The image shown, right, is a scan of a signed Israeli flag that I found among the possessions of my late father, Solomon Ogus. It appears to have been signed by a group of people on the date 5 Iyar 5709 (1949), which is the first anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel.
 
My father was intensely involved in Jewish Community activities in Pretoria and Johannesburg at the time, and therefore, I would guess that this flag was probably signed at one of the Jewish Conventions that he was attending at the time. Alternatively, it may have been signed at a first anniversary celebration of the State of Israel.
 
Most of the names on the flag are quite legible, and many appear to be members of the Pretoria Jewish community at the time. It therefore appears that the flag-signing took place at an event in Pretoria.
 
I have managed to identify the following names on the flag, shown in alphabetical order:
 
Julius Block, Mona Brener, C(ecil) Cooper (a son of Arie Cooper), S. Epstein, Berel Factor, R. Hellman, Thelma Jaffe, Marion Klein, Bella Levitt, Annie Levi, Mollie Lewkowski(?), Blumie Matthews, E. R. Mirvis, E. Neufeld, A. Nowosenetz, Solly (Solomon) Ogus, Lea Rodkin, Minnie Sack, Ray Sapirstein, H(arry) R. Schewitz, R. Schewitz, H. J. Schwartz, S. Schwartz, Ettie Shear, E. Shmuelson, or Shmuelow.
 
There are three names I cannot identify. If you can identify these last three names, or can provide any more information about this flag, then please e-mail Roy Ogus, at ogus@impact.xerox.com.

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Bnoth Zion Children's Mannequin Parade,
(Vredehoek Branch, Cape Town), 1948

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Chaim Weizman's visit to South Africa in 1932

Centre, seated: Chaim Weizman
1 - Samuel (Mulle) Missulawin	6 - ?	11 - ?	16 - ?
2 - Arieh Tager . (b 1900 - d 1967) Served as mayor of Ashkelon, Israel, from 1956 to 1967. May also have been known as Leo Tager (Hebrew 'Arieh' אריה = lion).	7 - Oscar Getz	12 - ?	17 - possibly Miss F. Sack
3 - Arthur Lourie a South African and Weizman's Private Secretary. He was the first Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St. James. He died in Israel in 1978.	8 - Yankel Fine	13 - ?	18 - ?
4 - ?	9 - David Dainar [Dainow?] (Editor of Zionist Record)	14 - ?	19 - ?
5 - possibly D. Ordman	10 - Sam Bloch	15 - ?	20 - ?

One of the group may be Rabbi Moses Cyrus Weiler.
 
If you can identify anyone in the photograph then please e-mail Dr Saul Issroff or rose4@attglobal.net.