Paul Willer, refugee from Nazis taken in by Attlee family, dies aged 94

Paul Willer in 2018. Attlee neither publicised nor sought to make political capital from his visitor, whose story was first told by the Guardian in 2018. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian

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.