Adolf Hoffman - '45 Aid Society

Hoffman was born in 1929 in in Vel’ka Sevljus in Czechoslovakia.

Hoffman was a member of a group of Holocaust survivors known as the Boys, despite the fact the group consisted of over 200 girls.

The Boys were teenage and child-Holocaust survivors, who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers, survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

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Name:

Adolf Hoffman

Birthplace:

Subcarpathian Rus

Yiddish Name:

Seylesh

Hungarian Name 1938 - 1945:

Nagyszőlős

Current Name:

Vynohradiv, Ukraine

Lone Child:

unknown

Hidden Child:

unknown

Liberation:

Unknown

Repatriation:

unknown

Return Home:

unknown

Arrival in UK:

March 1946

Group:

The third group

Point of Arrival:

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Hostels:

Millisle

Left UK:

1952

Destination:

USA

Lived in:

Settled in:

USA

Testament:

None