Biographies
284 records
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| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B-0007842 | biography | Hilda Bernstein | 1915-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0007832 | biography | Esther Barsel | 1924-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0007831 | biography | Hymie Barsel | 1920 | – |
| B-0007802 | biography | Frances Baard | 1909-1997 | ✓ |
| B-0007794 | biography | Rowley Israel Arenstein | 1918-1996 | ✓ |
| B-0007793 | biography | Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein | 1921 | ✓ |
| B-0007788 | biography | Phyllis Altman | 1919-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0007783 | biography | Ray Alexander Simons | 1914-2004 | ✓ |
| B-0007768 | biography | Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams | 1925-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0150469 | biography | Sumboornam Pillay | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0150447 | biography | Sibongile Susan Mkhabela | – | ✓ |
| B-0150418 | biography | Ashlatha Rambally | 1946 | ✓ |
| B-0150328 | biography | Joey Fourie | 1962 | ✓ |
| B-0148532 | biography | Paula Ensor | – | ✓ |
| B-0148406 | biography | Richard Owen Dudley | 1924-2009 | ✓ |
Hilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non…
Esther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and…
Hymie Barsel
Born in 1920 Barsel worked as a clerk. During the 30s he was assaulted when taking part in demonstrations against the Blackshirt Movement…
Frances Baard
Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape. She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland…
Rowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European…
Jacqueline (Jackie) Arenstein
As a young person, Arenstein joined the left wing Book Club in Durban where, among other authors, Marx and Lenin were read and discussed. …
Phyllis Altman
Phyllis Altman was born on 25 September 1919. She went to Jeppe High School for Girls. As her mother could not afford university fees she…
Ray Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging…
Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8…
Sumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee,…
Sibongile Susan Mkhabela
The youngest child of Mozambican immigrants, Sibongile (Bongi) Susan Mkhabela (nèe Mthembu) grew up in Zola, one of the poorest areas in…
Ashlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso…
Joey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in…
Paula Ensor
Paula Margaret Ensor was born in the early 1950s in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal).In 1971 Ensor completed her undergraduate degree in…
Richard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The…