Yetta Aloff was born in 1880 and was married to Myer Aloff.
The 1939 England and Wales Register confirms that she and her husband were living at 70 Columbia Road, Bethnal Green, London. Unusually, the dates of birth of both her and her husband were listed as 'Not known' and just the year of her birth, 1880, was given.
Her death was registered as aged 65 years in the 3rd quarter of 1940 in the Shoreditch Registration District, London. This would mean that she would have been born in 1874/1875, which is in contrast to the year given on the 1939 England and Wales Register. If the Register is correct then she would have been aged either 59 or 60 years when she died. She was injured on the night of 7th/8th September 1940 in the Columbia Market Air Raid Shelter, Bethnal Green, which took a direct hit from a bomb and died on 10 September 1940 at St Leonard's Hospital, Nuttall Street, London, N1 5LZ.
in the Streatham Park Jewish Cemetery, Rowan Road, London, SW16 5JF.
She is also commemorated on the , on the which incorrectly shows her date of death as 7 September 1940 and in that is kept just outside the entrance to St George's Chapel at the west end of Westminster Abbey.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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