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Ress (Resy) was one of the oldest of the Judelman children. On the way to South Africa, Ress, Alec and Issie went to Memel and visited Paula Merkel, a cousin of theirs. They met a family by the name of Golden. Leo Golden had a shoe store. He knew the […]

Ress Golden (Judelman)
רעסע גולדן – יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Issie was born in Skud, and according to his naturalization papers his date of birth was May 11, 1901. However, we think he was older than that; possibly born before the end of the century. At that time, many people falsified their ages for fear of being drafted into the […]

Issie Judelman
ישראל יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Louis was born in Skud in 1896, the eldest of 6 brothers. Louis left Skud in 1913 with his aunt Rochel Paglin (his mother, Ella’s, sister)and her five daughters: Agnes, Ettie, Bessie, Frieda and Ada before World War l (1912 or 1914). This was when his youngest brother, Sydney, was […]

Louis Judelman
יהודה לייב יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Alec arrived in South Africa in 1922. Somehow there was a connection to Louis Leftin; it is said that he gave Alec a job or papers. Alec worked on the diamond mines as a runner. He was about 22 at that time. He would run a distance for the owner […]

Alec Judelman
אליהו יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Ette Judelman was born in 1893. She married Yankel Melamed. She died on 3 April 1931 of pleurisy.

Ette Judelman
אטה יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Max Judelman left Lithuania, age 19, and traveled by ship through Southampton, arriving in Cape Town, South Africa in 1926. He arrived on the Witwatersrand and started off working for a cousin of his mother’s, Harry Sneech. He later worked on the diamond diggings in Lichtenburg where he staked a […]

Max Judelman
מנחם מנדל יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Rachel Rocha Judelman was born in 1906. She married Harry Kaplan in 1936 and lived in Riga. They had two children born in 1937 and 1940. She was killed in Alta Hill in 1941.

Rochel Judelman
רחל יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Menacheman ben Tzvi (Mannie) Judelman passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 14, 1996, which corresponds to 1 MarCheshvan 5757. His date of birth in Skud, Lithuania, is less certain; he told his family that his mother had falsified his birth certificate to help him evade being drafted into […]

Mannie Judelman
מנחם מן יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family

Sydney was born in Lithuania on June 5, 1912. He studied dentistry for two years before coming to South Africa. He bought property with a partner by the name of Jack Simon. The property was on Johannesburg Road, Lyndhurst. It was a township which they named Dorelan after Jack’s daughter […]

Sydney Judelman
ישעיהו שייקע יודלמן

January 14, 2017 in Descendants of Hirsch Judelman by family