Albert Waxman

Albert Waxman, who has died at 94, was a survivor of the Nazis who became a prominent Yorkshire textile manufacturer and philanthropist.

Born in Sarreguemines in north-eastern France in 1924, he moved with his family to Saarbrucken, just over the border with Germany, where his parents kept a draper’s shop

After living through Kristallnacht – the November pogrom of 1938 – during which the SS ransacked the family’s flat, forcing them to flee in their nightclothes, Albert and his brothers were dispersed overseas. His elder siblings went to Palestine, the youngest to a farm in France and Albert on the Kindertransport rescue mission to the UK.