Hugo Gabriel Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996) was a British Reform rabbi who was a popular broadcaster and a leading voice in interfaith dialogue.Hugo Gryn was born into a prosperous Jewish family in the market town of Berehovo in Carpathian Ruthenia, which was then in Czechoslovakia and is now in Ukraine. His parents, who married in 1929, were Geza Gryn (1900 – 1945), a timber merchant, and Bella Neufeld.Gryn’s family were interned in Auschwitz in 1944 after being forced to travel there by train in animal wagons. Hugo and his father survived but his brother Gaby and his mother were killed.Gryn came to Britain in 1946. After training as a rabbi in America, he spent several years in Bombay, moving to London in 1965, where he served in one of the largest congregations in Europe, the West London Synagogue, initially as assistant rabbi and later as senior rabbi, for 32 years. Gryn became a regular radio broadcaster and appeared for many years on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day and The Moral Maze.In 1989, Gryn returned to Berehovo together with his daughter Naomi to make a film about his childhood. After his death, Naomi Gryn edited his autobiography, also called Chasing Shadows, which deals movingly with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor.He married Jacqueline Selby on 1 January 1957 and they had four children together: Gaby, Naomi, Rachelle and David.He died on 18 August 1996 and is buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery. He was described as "probably the most beloved rabbi in Great Britain" by Rabbi Albert Friedlander, who was also the author of the entry about Gryn in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.