Harry Bloom

Harry Saul Bloom (born January 1, 1913 in Johannesburg , † July 28, 1981 in Canterbury ) was a South African journalist , author , activist and lecturer .

Life

Bloom was born into a Jewish South African family. He was at the Witwatersrand University trained and graduated in 1937 his law degree . He then became a lawyer in Johannesburg.

In 1940 he married Beryl Cynthia Gordon. The couple was moved to London and wrote under the pseudonyms Walter - and Beryl Storm to anti-Semitism to escape. You worked as a war correspondent during the Second World War and reported on the Nuremberg Trials after the war . Bloom later moved again with his wife, this time to Czechoslovakia .

There they wrote the book We Meet the Czechoslovaks together , an account of their early years in Czechoslovakia. Fearing for their safety when Stalinism grew stronger in Eastern Europe , they returned to South Africa and settled in Bramley, Johannesburg.

After the war, Bloom and his wife Beryl returned to Durban where their first child, Peter, was born in 1944. In 1957, a few months after Bloom's first novel, Episode in the Transvaal , was published, the family emigrated to Cape Town . However, he died at the age of six weeks. In October 1948 their daughter Susan Storm-Bloom , photographer and jewelry designer , was born in Prague. Her son Stephen Jack Bloom was born in Johannesburg in 1953.

Harry and Beryl divorced shortly after moving to London in 1963. There he met Sonia Copeland . They married in Canterbury in 1967. Harry Bloom suffered a stroke in 1976 . After a period of dwindling health, he died in 1981 in a Canterbury hospital .

Web links

• Harry Bloom website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harry Bloom - Harry Bloom - wiki wiki. Retrieved July 17, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Duchess of Long Street leaves legacy of glamor, irreverence | West Cape News. June 17, 2018, accessed July 17, 2020 .