Names on the buses

342 Alfred Huberman

Connections with Brighton and Hove : Alfred Huberman was one of 300 Jewish children flown to England at the end of the Second World War. They had been liberated from Hitler’s death camps just a few months earlier, and were acutely traumatised. The youngsters were taken to Windermere in the Lake District to rehabilitate, learn English and adjust to their new lives in the UK. Alfred had a distant relative in Hove who invited him to live with them on the south coast where he remained for the rest of his life. He became a master tailor and worked in Hannington’s, the upmarket department store in Brighton. Later he opened his own business in Church Road, Hove. Alfred married local girl Shirley in 1955, and together they raised three children. Throughout his life he remained in constant contact with his oldest and closest friends, who had shared his fate during the Second World War. The 2020 BBC documentary The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words explores the pioneering rehabilitation of Alfred and his friends. He died in 2011 at the age of 84.

342 Alexander Dennis Enviro - carried name since October 2020.