(Author: Kenneth Wright, Vol. 81, #1, Autumn-Winter 2026) EDITOR’S NOTE: In its Winter 2024 (Vol. 79, #1) issue, JA published Alon Shapira’s article ‘”What on earth is there to talk about?” – An act of wartime heroism remembered’ regarding the sinking of the
(Author: Ivan Kapelus, Vol. 80, #2, Summer 2025) A new museum, the Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, has been established in Latrun, Israel.[1] Herzog was President of Israel from 1983 – 1993 and during World War II
(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 79, #2, Summer 2024) A picture of a metal box had been sent for identification to Cape Town Holocaust Centre director Richard Freedman. What was it? Prof Arie Alexander Galles and his wife Sara were to be guests of
(Author: Alon Shapira, Vol. 79 * No. 1 * Winter 2024) ‘What on earth is there to talk about? There were dozens of chaps that did far more than I could ever have done – they should get the publicity, not
(Author: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 78, #3, Spring-Summer 2023) This is the second part of a story chronicling the experiences and events during World War II (1939-1945) in which three uncles of the sisters Arlene Rubin (nee Egnal) and Denise Buxbaum
(AUTHOR: Stuart Buxbaum, Vol. 77, #3, Spring 2022) This is the first part of a story chronicling the experiences and events during World War II (1939-1945) during which three uncles of the sisters Arlene Rubin (nee Egnal) and Denise Buxbaum (nee Egnal), were soldiers
(Author: Gary Nowosenetz, Vol. 76, #3, Spring 2021) The 1 Medium Battery 4th Field Regiment We did Basics in Potchefstroom in 1975. Afterwards, we were divided up into three groups and trained in how to operate and deploy the 5.5 (140-mm guns. The first
(Author: Leila Bloch, Vol. 73, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2018) It is important to preserve memories while there are people around to share them with us. This is the function of the Jewish Digital Archive Project (JDAP), a community project sponsored by the Kaplan-Kushlick
(Volume 64, #3, Chanukah 2009) Editor’s Note: The Jewish Chronicle, organ of UK Jewry, enthusiastically backed the British war effort in South Africa. Its wartime issues regularly carried war news, specifically relating to the Jews on active service. The example of the latter was played
(Author: Saul Issroff, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010) Sarah Glueck acquired world-wide prominence during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. At the time, she was employed as the postmistress in the village of Lady Grey in the Cape Province, near the Lesotho border. She defied an