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Max Skuy
- Accession Number
- 2015-4-2
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2015-4-2
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material (electronic)
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- 14 photographs : tiff
- Date
- 1961-[2014?]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of textual and graphic material documenting the activities of Max Skuy. Included are photocopies of short stories and poems written by Max and photographs of Max and Glenda's wedding, portraits of Max and his family, Max at the closing of the synagogue in Vryheid, and the window displays at Max's pharmacy in South Africa.
- Administrative History
- Max Skuy was born in Karsava, Latvia in 1929 to Benjamin and Chana (nee Cilevitz) Skuy. In 1930, Max and his mother immigrated to Vryheid, South Africa. They joined Max's father who was already living there. Max is the oldest of three children. His siblings are Percy (b. 1932) and Rita (b. 1942). Max married Glenda Silverstone in 1961. They had three children together. Max owned his own pharmacy in Durban called Check Pharmacy.
- Max and Glenda immigrated to Toronto soon after Max's mother passed away in 1985. Max's children and brother Percy had already immigrated here. Max found work managing a furniture store in Richmond Hill. He is a member of a short story club and regularly submits stories and poems to the SAJAC News for publication.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- South Africa--Emigration and immigration
- Name Access
- Skuy, Max, 1929-
- Places
- Vryheid, South Africa
- Source
- Archival Accessions