I am appealing for the descendants of Ochberg’s Orphans to get in contact.
In 1921 Isaac Ochberg, representative of the South African Jewish Community, travelled to Poland and the Ukraine and brought back with him to Cape Town 181 Russian, Ukraine and Polish War and Pogrom Orphans.
These children were placed either in the care of The Cape Jewish Orphanage (later called Oranjia) or in Johannesburg’s South African Jewish Orphanage (later called Arcadia). Many were then adopted by members the Jewish community.
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