Willer was taken in by the Labour leader and future prime minister after fleeing Germany following Kristallnacht

A refugee who fled the Nazis and was quietly taken in by the family of Clement Attlee in the run up to the second world war, has died.

Paul Willer, 94, escaped Germany in 1939 with his Jewish mother and brother after being sponsored by the then Labour leader.

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