My father, Leslie Klenerman, who has died aged 86, was a talented surgeon, teacher, scholar and athlete, whose work influenced many people in the field of orthopaedics.
Born in Johannesburg, to Aaron and Fanny Klenerman, he was part of a vibrant community of migrants from Latvia and Lithuania who had established themselves in South Africa earlier in the century. Both his father and his aunt, Pauline Klenerman, were doctors who had themselves trained in the UK before returning to South Africa to practise, while his other aunt, Fanny Klenerman, established the leftwing (and, later, anti-apartheid) Vanguard bookshop in Johannesburg in the 1930s.
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