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Isaac Ochberg and Sholem Schwartzbard : the Cape Town connection to the pogroms in the Ukraine
A tragic by-product of the Civil War that broke out in Russia after the October Revolution in 1917 were the numerous pogroms that occurred. It has been estimated that as many as 160 000 Jews died in the Ukraine in the years 1919-1921.Two archival collections in the Jewish Studies Archives at the University of Cape Town are connected to these pogroms. One relates to the Ochberg Orphan emigration scheme. The second is the collection of Sholen Schwarzbard.These two collections relate to the Ochberg orphans and highlight the interconnectivity of Eastern Europe's Jewish Diaspora
Article, 2009