1947 - Class 1 at Jewish pre-primary school

Back row: l to r: Keith Gild, Mervyn Kaplan, Mrs Cotterel, Anthony Levy, John Moshal
Middle row: Melvyn Geshen, Stephen Hackner
Front row: Max Stange, Les Abro, Josh Oshry, Brian Kahn, Naomi Hertz, Michael Kaye, Ivan Orelowitz, Joel Ingel

Photo colourized by My Heritage

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1957 - School Photo 1957
My last year of school at Durban High School. I am in the back row, last on the right.

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Wedding

Doreen on a camel in Sinai
Moran scanned this photo of Doreen on a camel in Sinai, and sent it to us in time for Passover 2015. Approriate as the haggadah recounts the 40 year wandering by Moses and the Children of Israel  in the desert. They should have taken Doreen as a guide.

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The Levy family about 1917
Annie, Joe, Hayman, Olga holding Eric, Fannie, Ethel

 Sheenagh and Charles sent me this picture of Charles' father, Eric, my uncle. The family resemblance (not apparent in pictures of older Eric) to me, and (Doreen says) our grandchild Itamar is striking.

My father and mother, Hayman and Queenie, with Menahem Begin in Durban. Hayman was an active member of the Zionist Revisionist Movement, the forerunner of the Herut political party in Israel which became the dominant partner of the Likud, the party in power in Israel.  Doreen's father was also a Revisionist supporter.
See also a picture of my aunt Dora Shapiro at Beni Begin's barmitzvah.
Doreen and I have not followed the family tradition - we are supporters of the Meretz Party which is diametrically opposed to the Likud Party.

Hayman with grandson Aviv, about 1968

Bruce Levy died in 1943, 1 year old.

My sister Fern, aged about 6, was the flowergirl at the wedding of our father's cousin Louis Hurwitz to Avigail Woolfson in 1948. Louis' mother was Rebecca (Becky) Matz Hurwitz. The bridesmaid on the left is Louis' sister Ellen. Click to see a picture of the family at the wedding.

The Klotnick family 2021

In 1995 Doreen and I went on a long RV (motorhome) trip in Western USA -Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming. We visited many of the canyons and parks the West is famous for. We also met for the first time some  family.



Utah, the Matz family: Sidney and Esther, Ruth McCrimmon, me and Berenice Engleberg
 

We lived and ate in the motorhome (and even sewed!), and parked in campgrounds.


We visited many of the canyons and parks the West is famous for ......
A bison in Yellowstone Park
..... and hiked, ......
Stopping for a break, rest and picnic lunch in Heritage Park in Wyoming.
.....climbed, ....






....... bicycled, ......
At the Wyoming - Idaho border



......  and fished.  I didn't have too much luck with fishing but one one occasion I was lucky to catch a meal-sized  trout in the Wind River (Wyoming). 

When I was working in the Bahamas about 20 years ago, Doreen and I would sometimes go to Cuba.for the weekend. Often when we had visitors they would join us. On this occasion daughter Vered and Aviv joined us together with Vered's long-time friend Keren. (Click for a picture of Vered and Keren skiing).