Little is known about how long Herman (Heshel ben Zalman) Greenberg and his wife Bertie (née Linde) spent in Vryburg. The earliest record is from 1925. According to Herman’s death certificate, he was a hotelkeeper and speculator living in Vryburg. The death certificate of Ludwig Hammerschlag from 1928 shows that Herman Greenberg managed the Savoy Hotel (the International). Based on liquor license board reports, Herman Greenberg and his partner Abraham Blashker bought the Savoy's bottle store in 1925. A year later, Herman was working alone. When he died, he owned no immovable property and had already sold the hotel to Moses Cohen. Therefore, we believe he was likely compelled to sell and continued to run the hotel as an employee.

 

From Interactions with his descendants suggest he was a hotelier in Kimberley before moving to Vryburg. He died in Uniondale in December 1929 while staying with his in-laws. His wife, Bertha (Bertie), was the daughter of Louis Linde and Chai Chesne. Chai Chesne was the daughter of Nathan Slom and Dora Feigeh Slom (nee Meluick). They married in Srednik (now Seredzius), Kovno, and settled in Uniondale. Less is known about Herman Greenberg’s origins, but he was born in Lithuania. Herman and his wife had two daughters, Felicia Daphne (born in 1924) and Eleanor (born in 1928 in Kimberley). From their descendants, we know that the two girls were raised in Uniondale after their father’s death.

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