Digitised naturalisation (NAA)

Digitised service records (NAA)

Digitised Embarkation roll entry (AWM)

Personal case file 1 2(NAA)

Intelligence section file (NAA)

Spry, H E & another v Waxman, S & others (digitised file) (NAA)

Waxman's Fashion House, accounts (NAA)

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From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Samuel Waxman had his own business, too, and he had also worked at Myer's, but before his enlistment: 'He apparently did it by direct approach to Sidney Myer and as a result got a job', according to Waxman's son. 'They both spoke Yiddish to each other. Sidney Myer in those early days had a much more direct connection with his staff before he grew so big.' That experience helped Waxman when it came to starting his own business, as his son relates. 'I believe he went into manufacturing of clothing in South Australia for a short time and then opened a suburban clothing shop and had a bankruptcy. Then he opened a fashion shop in Randell Street, which was the only shopping street of Adelaide City in the 1930s. And that shop survived until 1980. ... I can remember my mother saying she was down to one dress [during the depression], so it was obviously very hard, but they survived somehow. You can say that he prospered without becoming immensely rich.'