WWII AND SA JEWRY AS REFLECTED BY ARTEFACTS IN THE SAJBD CAPE COUNCIL COLLECTION.

The article looks at Jewish participation in World War II as seen through the religious artefacts possessed by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Topics mentioned include a Soldiers' Assistance Committee coordinated by the Cape Town War Emergency Committee, gifts provided by SA Gifts and Comforts to soldiers, and a drawing by British Jewish artist J.H. Amshewitz on the victims of Nazi brutality.