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JEWISH DEATHS IN HUGHES MANSIONS
Vallance Road, Stephney, London on 27 March 1945 caused by the
last V2 Rocket attack on London
NOTES: 1. Those marked with *** are listed in M. Lazarus,
A Club Called Brady, 1996, as having died at Hughes Mansions.
2. The names have been extracted from the Commonwealth War Graves Commision’s
Register of Civilian War Dead of the Borough of Stepney, a copy of which
was provided by the Tower Hamlets Local History Library, Bancroft Road.
However, Fay Fradkin, who died at Claybury Hospital, is listed in the Ilford
Register. In addition the Local History Library provided an incomplete
list of all those killed in Hughes Mansions. Apart from those marked ***
their selection has been on the basis of name. For this reason it may not
be complete. 3. The deceased armed forces personnel are not listed in the Stepney Register
but their inclusion is based on inference, viz the date of death, and being
a member of a deceased family. In the cases of Pte Finlay and of Pilot
Officer Mantus they are included in the notices of death of their families
in the Jewish Chronicle, 6th April, 1945. Being wartime – in order not
to give information to the enemy - the death notices did not mention the
bombing of Hughes Mansions but the reference is obvious.
Altman, Isaac Myer, 60 Hughes Mansions. Aged
18. Son of Samuel and Rebecca of 1 Ford House, Clark St. Husband of Esther.
Finklestein, Lazarus, 36 Hughes Mansions.
Aged 37. Son of Harris and Fanny.
Finklestein, Marie, 36 Hughes Mansions. Aged
39. Russian National. Daughter of Harris and Fanny.
Finlay, David Kenneth, Pte RAVC. Youngest
son of late Mr & Mrs Finklestein.
[In JC, 6 April 1945, p.6, noting their deaths, the names
are Alter (for father), Louis and Mary.
And Cpl(sic) Finlay is given as youngest son of Mr and
Mrs Alter Finklestein.]
Fradkin, Fay, 54 Hughes Mansions. Aged 29.
Wife of Gnr Maurice Fradkin RA. Injured at Hughes Mansions died same day
at Claybury Hospital.
Fradkin, Jeffrey Alvin, 54 Hughes Mansions.
Aged 4 weeks. Son of Gnr Maurice Fradkin RA and Fay.
Freedman, Anita, 55 Hughes Mansions. Aged
6. Daughter of Nathan and S. Freedman
Freedman, Annie, 6 Hughes Mansions. Aged 53.
Wife of Morris.
Freedman, Brian, of 53 Alkham Road, Stoke
Newington. Aged 16 months. Son of Maurice and Lily. At 81 Hughes Mansions.
Freedman, Lily, 78 Hughes Mansions. Aged 17.
Daughter of Simon and Rachel. ***
Freedman, Lily, of 53 Alkham Road, Stoke Newington.
Aged 25. Daughter of Davis and Bessie Wingrad. Wife of Maurice. At 81 Hughes
Mansions. (see Wingrad below).
Goldberg, Frank, 37 Hughes Mansions. Aged
14. Son of Kitty Simons (formerly Goldberg.)
Green, Golda, 71 Hughes Mansions. Aged 41.
Wife of Jacob.
Green, Rosalie, 71 Hughes Mansions. Aged 5.
Daughter of Jacob and Golda. ***
Groves, Jack, 66 Hughes Mansions. Aged 5.
Son of Tom and Rebecca. ***
Groves, Rebecca, 66 Hughes Mansions. Aged
43. Wife of Tom.
Hocherman, Fanny, 74 Hughes Mansions. Aged
35. Daughter of Israel Marks and Rachel Bitensky of 81 Reighton Rd, Clapton.
Wife of Abraham Hocherman of 39 Achad Aham Street, Petach Tikwah.
Kaye, Alexander Kochinsky (Alan), 33 Hughes
Mansions. Aged 21.
Russian National. Son of Joseph and Debra.
Levy, Kitty, 65 Hughes Mansions. Aged 36.
Daughter of Alfred and Julia.
Mantus, Gerald, Pilot Officer Navigator, RAFVR.
Parents Harris and Esther (sic).
Mantus, Harris, 86 Hughes Mansions. Aged 54.
Son of Mrs H. Mantus of 242 Navarino Mansions, Dalston Lane, Hackney and
of late M. Mantus. Husband of R. Mantus of 86 Hughes Mansions.
[JC, 6.4.45. p.2, says survived by wife Rebecca and brother
Adolph.]
