Elayne Hoffman News Today

WAYNE TOWNSHIP — The Infant Development Program, Parents As Teachers and children met recently at the Wayne Township Nature Park for a Group Connection eve

When I drove over to 91-year-old Elayne Hoffman’s Caulfield house in June 2021, she had heard that I was seeking to interview Jewish Australians with Greek heritage. Alert, hospitable and very thoughtful, Hoffmann was generous with her time and was happy to tell me about her family history. “My parents were both born in Salonika in Greece,” she said, “but they left Greece and took me with as a 6-month-old baby to Paris in search of better opportunities in 1927.” When the Hoffmann fami...