Ephraim Gluckman managed the affairs of Solomon’s Stores, during the time it was owned by Schneier and London. The new owners bought the business from the Sonnenberg - Rosenblatt families in 1920. In 1922 Ephraim had three legal cases pertaining to Solomons Stores. In 1933 the business was sold to Ephraim Hechter. That places Ephraim Gluckman in the town in the 1920s. Ephraim was active in local government politics and served on the local town council. Ephraim was a bachelor and he was joined in Vyburg by his sister Nadia and her husband Joseph Berman. The couple had three children, Alfred Berman, Stella Berman Saffer and Irma Starfield. From his estate we also learn that he had two other sisters - Mina Marks and Fanny Woolf. The length of the Berman sojourn n Vryburg is not known.

 

Like many of the Vryburg families, Ephraim hailed from Talsen. He was the son of Fannie (nee Lipman) and Joseph Berman. From Fannie’s death notice in 1910 we glean that she was about 66 and that her husband had passed away some 11 years earlier. We also learn that Ephraim maintained his mother. After Vryburg, Ephraim moved to Johannesburg and in 1942 he passed away at Old Homestead in Lyndhurst. This property belonged to Maurice Gluckman – who founded Gluckman Family Traders with his brother Nathan. Maurice’s son, Gerry interacted with the local Jewish farmers as their agent at the major abattoirs.