Samuel Waxman

Alias Shmul Vaksman (in consular letter)

Born 17.06.1896     Place Warsaw, Poland     Ethnic origin Jewish     Religion Jewish

Father Waxman, Lazor (Leizer)     Mother -

Arrived at Australia

            from Warsaw     on 1912     per Norseman     disembarked at Melbourne

Residence before enlistment Melbourne

Occupation 1916 salesman, 1919 draper, 1928 merchant

Service

service number 5905     enlisted 7.08.1916     POE Melbourne

unit 24th Battalion       rank Private

place Western Front, 1917-1919       casualties WIA (gassed) 1918

final fate RTA 6.10.1919      discharged 26.02.1920

Naturalisation 1920

Residence after the war Melbourne, Adelaide

Family wife Leah Waxman (née Peskin), married 1923; children David Waxman b. 1923, Ramon Baron b. 1928, Barbara Joan b. 1932, Ronald Lawrence b. 1935

Died 30.03.1942

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

Intelligence section file (NAA)

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

Waxman's Fashion House, accounts (NAA)

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.’

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