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Notes Made By The Late Anne Yamey*

Anne (nee Freedman) was widow of Ian Yamey.

* Information based on conversations with (?)Max Yamey

[Slighly edited from a photocopy of Anne's notes kindly provided by Elsa Budlender]

 

Moses JAMI

Married Dora Peisel. They lived in Kuliai, Lithuania. He exported linseed and flax to Memel (now Klaipeda, Lith.) before WW1. They had 7 children: Heinrich, Feitel, Elsa, Kurt, Issie, Max,Sheinel.

HEINRICH JAMI

Batchelor. Lived in Budapest with maternal uncles where they had a brewery. In Nazi era took last boat to Shanghai where he was interned but able to conduct business. After WW2 came to Wolsely (S. Africa) where he started a business, A few years later he was murdered.

FEITEL JAMI

Batchelor. Was decorated by Stalin after WW2. Highly cultivated, academic and musical. Government service in USSR as a bookkeeper. Asked for knife and flask to be sent to him. Died ~1968.

ELSA JAMI

She was a teacher, married Andor Braun, a book-jacket designer. Settled in USA (New York City) where they have raised a family.

KURT JAMI

A furrier who married Greta (Surname unknown) and lived in the USA. They have one daughter.

ISSIE JAMI

(name changed to YAMEY)

Batchelor who worked for Max Yamey in Wolsely (SA). An intellectual and musical man and friend of Boonzaier (the painter, Gregoire? or the scholar Willem? who lived in Wolsely ). Died 1947.

MAX JAMI

(name changed to YAMEY)

Married Vitti Feldman, lived in Wolsely(SA) where they raised a family.

SHEINEL JAMI

Married. Family lost in the Holocaust.

 

MAX's UNCLES

SOLLY - see below

ABEL - lived in Plunge (Lith.), died young in Königsberg (now Kalliningrad, Russia).

MAX's PATERNAL AUNTS

RACHEL married Mr KAFRI. They went to Israel as chalutyzim after WW1. They had two children SARAH and JOSEPH.

MINNIE, a spinster, lived in Plunge (Lith.)

SOLLY YAMEY

Son of JOSEPH YAMEY and DEBORAH GARB

Solly Yamey (grandfather of Adam Yamey) married Leah Halperin. Had a business in (name of town almost illegible: _ _aris ?Garies? but more likely to have been Bowesdorp - a now deserted township near to Kamieskroon) Namaqualand. Trader in Cape Town (SA) as wholesaler before settling in Tulbagh(SA).

Solly and Leah reared a family whch has since dispersed all over the globe.

Max and Issie woked for Solly in Tulbagh.

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