Reuben (Ruby) BEHR

  Events

1. Hebrew name: Ruven ben Elijahu.

2. Picture: Ruby Behr aged 18, 1940, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

3. Military, 1941-1945, Libya, North Africa. Rank:
Trooper
Service Number:
227115

4. Picture: Nightt before captured as POW, 20 June 1943, Tobrruk, Libya.

5. Military: Captured as Prisoner of War, 21 June 1943, Tobrruk, Libya. Was imprisoned in the following camps: Benghazi - from 30/06/1942 till 21/10/1942, Swani - from 01/11/1942 till 21/011/1942, Tuturano Camp 85 - from 01/01/1942 till 08/03/1943, Laterina Camp 82 - from 13/09/1943 till 19/09/1943, Stalag 4B - from 21/09/1943 till 27/09/1943. He was at the following work camps: Brüx, Sudetenland - from 27/09/1943 till 08/05/1945 as Labourer & Human Machine.

6. Military: Medals (to be updated), 1945.

7. Military: Liberated by the Russians, 8 May 1945, Czechoslovakia.

8. Military: Member of the tin hats (Moths), 1947.

9. Picture: Wedding invitation, 14 October 1954, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

10. Picture, 24 October 1954, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

11. Picture, 1964, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. L-R Sandra, Paul, Linette and Janice

12. Election: Warden, Chairman and President: Greenside Shul, Johannesburg, South Africa.

13. Picture: Moth, March 2006, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

14. Picture: Ruby's 90th birthday, April 2012, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

15. Burial, 17 October 2018, West Park Jewish Cemetery, Johannesburg, Gauteng.

Reuben married Rita GREEN, daughter of Ore Jankel GREEN and Lieba GREEN, on 24 October 1954 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. (Rita GREEN was born on 5 December 1925 in Pasvitinus Lithuania, died on 13 October 2013 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa and was buried in West Park Jewish Cemetery, Johannesburg, Gauteng.)

1. Marriage Synagogue, 24 October 1954, Greenside Shul, Johannesburg, South Africa.