Geffin's handprints and boot prints are displayed in the New Zealand National Rugby Museum in tribute to his 1949 kicking record.
[6] Geffin was born near to Ellis Park rugby stadium in Johannesburg, to a Jewish family of Russian origins.
[3] While in Stalag XX-A near Thorn (Toruń) in occupied Poland, he met Bill Payn, a former Springbok, and they helped arrange an "international test" against a New Zealand POW XV.
[6] He spent three years in POW camps in Italy and Germany,[3] as well as Poland, where he practised his kicking barefoot near a mass grave of Polish victims of the Nazis.
[7] The Springboks won ten matches in a row, including a 4–0 whitewash of New Zealand on their 1949 tour to South Africa.