Reference code
ZA UCT BC949_A_A129
Title
Moritz Jacobson
Date(s)
- 07-09-1981 (Creation)
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Name of creator
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Scope and content
Transcript of interview with Moritz Jacobson of Cape Town. Born in a village on the border of Lithuania and Latvia in 1890. Father immigrated to South Africa in 1895 and the rest of the family in 1903. Father was a wheatbuyer before immigrating; in South Africa he was a smous, later owning a shop and the family lived in Philippolis in the Free State. Interviewer: L Robinson.