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was all but bankrupted by a combination of the Great Depression and an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Various other business ventures failed, including a butchery for black township residents in Lobengula Street, Bulawayo, and at one stage he had to resort to selling specially cut up old newspapers to the mines to support his family. In October 1943, Myer returned to Bulawayo where he purchased the Charter Confectionery & Cafe opposite the Palace Theatre. He also started a modestly successful wholesale stationery company. Paulina (1880-1943) married her cousin, Louis (Lozer) Sakinofsky in Cape Town in 1906. They had three children, Robert, Jeanette and Cecile. The couple eventually settled in the Boland town of Worcester, where they opened a General Dealer shop, named Robert’s Store after their son. A “friendly service store” that offered “dependable goods of the utmost value”, it was later taken over by Robert Sakinofsky and his wife Maida and in all operated for over sixty years. 119 Maurice Simon (1892-1965), the youngest of the Yodaiken siblings and the only one to be born in Ireland, immigrated to South Africa in 1912, the same year his father left for Palestine. He set up a motor business first in Cape Town and then in Johannesburg (called Transvaal Motor Industries). In 1919 he married Annie (Audrey) Mallinick from Kimberley and they had one son, Ralph Emil Yodaiken. Ralph Yodaiken’s story is a particularly interesting one. Working at night for a Revisionist newspaper he became an ardent Betarnik and was eventually admitted to the SA branch of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization). He was involved in the escape of five top Irgun commanders held in the British prison camp Gil Gil, Kenya, being one of five local activists to make their passports available to the escapees. (The passports were carried by Chief Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz, concealed in a loaf of bread and picked up by one of the prisoners; the latter turned out to be a relative – also named Yodaiken - whom Ralph had never met). 120 In 1947, Ralph worked with Jewish DPs from the East European concentration camps who had walked across the Alps to reach Italy. He then made his way to Palestine and saw extensive action as a machalnik during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, saving several men under his command. He accepted the flag of surrender for the Israelis following a battle with the Egyptians at the Faluja Gap. After the war, Ralph returned to South Africa to pursue his life-long ambition to study medicine. He married Naomi Baumslag (also to become a professor), and the couple had three children. In 1963, he took up a position as Professor of Pathology at Emory Medical School in Atlanta, Georgia. He later became the Director of Occupational Medicine in the US Department of Labour, remaining in that position until his retirement. He and Naomi now live Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Isaac Joe 121 (1876-1951) settled in Johannesburg in 1911, living in the city for the remainder of his life. He left his wife, Sarah (Freedman) ex Limerick, Ireland, two of his 119 As told to the author by Maida (Hassall) Sakinofsky, Paulina’s daughter-in-law. 120 Written communication from Ralph Yodaiken to the author, June 2008. 121 As told by his grandchildren, Dawn Rostofsky Bloom, Merle Rostovsky Cohen, and Lynn Rostovsky Neiman.
surviving children, Clarrice Jeanette Rostovsky, and Florence Klein. (His son Lionel Trevor died in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II). Of the two Yodaiken siblings who remained in Ireland, Sam (1874-1931) was variously a rubber merchant, bought components of warehouses’ “about to be demolished” cars and scrap metal dealer. He was married to Rosa Weiner and they had four children, Aubrey, Reneé, Marjorie Jeanette and Leslie. Rosie Yodaiken (1890-1960) married her cousin, Simon Lapedus, in Dublin in 1908. They had three surviving children, Lionel, Bethel and Stanley (two other children, Mabel and Cedric, died in infancy). Stanley married Julie Marcus in Dublin in 1920. The latter, along with her two children, Robert Eric Lapedus and Anne (Lapedus) Brest - the writer of this article - today live in Sandton, South Africa.
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