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Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan
Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan (6 June 1915 – 17 January 1995) was a Lithuanian-British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented. Gannex raincoats were worn by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a friend of his. Kagan was sent to prison for ten months in 1980 for stealing from his own companies.
==Early life==
He was born Juozapas Kaganas into a Litvak family in Lithuania. He first came to Britain in 1934 to study at the University of Leeds but returned to Lithuania where he was trapped on the outbreak of World War II in Kaunas. He married Margarita Shtromaite (later Lady Kagan) in the Kaunas Ghetto. The newlyweds and Joseph's mother, Mira managed to survive over three years in this ghetto. First, they were ordinary inmates, but when Kagan realised there was no chance of their surviving unless they escaped, he organised a hiding place for himself, his new wife and his mother in a factory just outside the ghetto walls. The three lived in a small box in the factory attic for nine months, kept alive by the efforts of a Lithuanian non-Jew, Vytautas Rinkevicius, who risked his and his family's life to save them. When the Nazis were ousted from Lithuania, Joseph and Margaret Kagan made their way to Bucharest and from there, to England. From 1946 he settled in Huddersfield and began work as a blanket weaver. He founded his firm at a small factory opposite Elland Town Hall. His father Benjamin had emigrated before the war: he was the second oldest man in Britain when he died at the age of 109.
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