Rabbi Hugo Gryn, executive director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, is joining the staff of the Joint Distribution Committee as an executive assistant, it was announced today by Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-chairman. Born in Czechoslovakia, Rabbi Gryn is a survivor of three concentration camps. He was liberated from the Mauthausen Camp in 1945 by the United States Army. His first association with the JDC was the Prague office, where he received displaced persons and was later sent to escort groups of orphaned children to England.
In 1948, he served as a volunteer in the Israeli Army. He came to the United States on a scholarship in 1950 to complete his rabbinical training, and was graduated from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1956. His first pulpit was the Jewish Religious Union, a liberal congregation in Bombay, India. After serving there for two and a half years, Rabbi Gryn was named executive director of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
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