ESCAPE FROM POKROY: A family saga across time, exile and antisemitism

251pp., illus., paperback, New Voices Publishing Services, No Place, 2025

ISBN: 9781037094620

Barry Cohen tells the story of his ancestors' arduous journey from Eastern Europe to Cape Town.

In 1904, when the Nazis invaded Lithuania, Bentze and Sorah Hoffman decided to flee their shtetl of Pokroy to seek refuge in South Africa, and to send their sons, Chaim and Abram, aged ten and twelve, ahead on their own.

Barry Cohen launched the lottery scratch card, SuperSport Dream League and the Southern Africa Golf Hall of Fame and Museum. His books include The Cedric Kushner story; Let me Play, a biography of golfer Sewshanker 'Papwa' Sewgolum, Who's Who in African Golf and The Boys from Bulawayo, the biggest police investigation in Australian history.