Welcome to the website celebrating the small but vibrant Jewish Community that once lived and thrived in Vryburg, Northern Cape, South Africa in the mid to late 20th Century.  

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Some Jewish families spent decades in the town and district, some spent a few years or even months. By now, we all have left the town. The last family, the Jocums, left the district in 2021. Many have left the country. 

All that remains of Jewish Vryburg is the cemetery (some of us have family buried there) and the Simon Lieberthal Guild Hall. Today, it serves as a youth centre for the nearby Dutch Reformed Church. 

We all have vivid memories and images we can preserve as a tribute to a vibrant community that once was. These memories include cheder lessons, Jewish holidays, shul services, communal events and Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s.

There are already marvelous recollections of family, friendship and childhood enabling us to launch this website in September 2021. A second website of family albums has been developed.  

We know this is an ongoing process that can only grow with the help of those that passed through. Keep sending your memories and pictures to Gary Sussman, son of one of the last resident families in Vryburg.

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