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IN ALBIE’S WORDS... I think it was 1946, and you can see me and my younger brother Johnny in the SACS school uniform. We'd been allowed out of school for maybe the afternoon to see our father, Solly Sachs, about to leave on a Union Castle boat for Europe and, I think, North America. He did the trip as the General Secretary of the Garment Workers Union of South Africa. And I see that I was just about as tall as my dad. In 1946 I would have been 11 years old. I was on the tall side. And looking at it, it's not a warm ‘daddy and his boys’ picture with his arms around us. It's a fairly formal one, and he was wearing a suit and on official business and we’re wearing our school uniforms.
Solly Sachs leaving on Union Castle liner for meeting in Geneva 1951. Albie and Johnny in school uniform of South African College School.
