By 1930, he had followed Marlie to Ndola, in the copper belt of Northern Rhodesia, where his sister married Abe Lowenithal, to whom she had been engaged before she left Latvia.
He may have been encouraged to leave Ndola by the closure of the Bwana Mkubwa mine in February 1931, which had a devastating effect on the economy of the town.
On arrival in Lusaka, Wulfsohn got a job with a young Jewish man from Palestine named David Shapiro.
Shapiro set up trading stores all around Lusaka and profited more than any other local trader from the development of the new capital.
[3] Harry was a full generation younger than his partners, but shared their Jewish roots in the Russian Empire.