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Albie Sachs (January 30, 1935) is a South African lawyer, activist, writer, and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela.
Albie Sachs was born in Johannesburg at the Florence Nightingale Hospital to Emile Solomon “Solly” Sachs, General Secretary to the Garment Workers’ Union of South Africa, and Rachel “Ray” (née Ginsberg) Sachs (later Edwards). Both his mother and father fled to South Africa as children with parents who were escaping persecution against Jews in Lithuania. Sachs shared that at the time they left, the antisemitism had become so violent that “Every Easter, the Cossacks would ride into the villages and say, ‘The Jews killed Christ, we’re going to kill the Jews.’ And my grandparents and others were fleeing into the forests and basements of buildings… so they wanted to escape.”
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