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Hugo Gabriel Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996) was a British Reform rabbi and a regular broadcaster and a leading voice in interfaith dialogue. Hugo Gryn was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the market town of Berehovo in Carpathian Ruthenia, which was then in Czechoslovakia and is now in Ukraine. His parents, who married in 1929, were Geza Gryn (1900 – 1945), a timber merchant, and Bella Neufeld. Gryn’s family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Hugo and his mother survived but his brother Gaby was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz, while his father died a few days after he and Hugo were liberated from Gunskirchen - a sub-camp of Mauthausen - in May, 1945. Gryn came to Britain in 1946. After training as a rabbi in America, he spent several years in Bombay and New York, moving to London in 1964, where he served in one of the largest congregations in Europe, the West London Synagogue, initially as assistant rabbi and later as senior rabbi, for 32 years. Gryn became a regular radio broadcaster and appeared for many years on BBC Radio 4's ''Thought for the Day'' and ''The Moral Maze''. In 1989, Gryn returned to Berehovo together with his daughter Naomi to make a film about his childhood.〔(''Chasing Shadows'' (1991) – Plot summary:imdb.com )〕 After his death, Naomi Gryn edited his autobiography, also called ''Chasing Shadows'',〔(Hugo Gryn ''Chasing Shadows'' – Introduction by Naomi Gryn (penguin.co.uk) )〕 which deals movingly with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. He married Jacqueline Selby on 1 January 1957〔 and they had four children together: Gaby, Naomi, Rachelle and David. He died on 18 August 1996 and is buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery in Golders Green, London. The grave lies in a relatively prominent location, just north-east of the main entrance. He was described as "probably the most beloved rabbi in Great Britain" by Rabbi Albert Friedlander, who was also the author of the entry about Gryn in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.〔Albert Friedlander, ‘Gryn, Hugo Gabriel (1930–1996)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, Oct 2008 ( accessed 13 March 2009 ) (Note that online access to this requires a subscription, either as an individual or through a library that has a subscription.)〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugo Gryn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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