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CodeDS/UK/20158
NameRayner; John Desmond (1924-2005); CBE; German-born British rabbi
Variations of NameHans Sigismund Rahmer (birth name)
Dates1924-2005
GenderMale
BiographyRabbi John Desmond Rayner CBE (30 May 1924 – 19 September 2005) was born in Berlin as Hans Sigismund Rahmer. He left Berlin in 1939 on one of the last Kindertransports. There were about 10,000 children on the train. Both his parents, Ferdinand Rahmer and Charlotte Landshut, died in the Holocaust.

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