Address: Simondium Road Suider Paarl Western Cape South Africa
My great grandfather, C.L. Back, fled Lithuania, because of religious persecution in 1902. He got on a ship from Europe and came down to Cape Town. Not being able to speak or read English or Afrikaans, life wasn’t exactly easy to begin with. He toiled on the docks at Cape Town harbour before moving to Paarl to manage a butchery, Read more...