[1][2] The Art Deco-style building is a protected South African Heritage Resources Agency site and currently operates as Private Collection, an antique furniture showroom.

During the first half of the twentieth century, many Jewish immigrants from Europe, especially Lithuania settled in Cape Town.

A number of Jewish immigrants living in District Six began to buy and build homes in Vredehoek.

[5] Following his death, the Cape Town City Council renamed the street alongside the shul Rabbi Mirvish Avenue.

He added that he believed that the Rybacks had either died in the ghetto or had been removed earlier to be exterminated in a death camp.