Louis Aaron does have at least one nephew in the Leeds area, who contacted me about 10 years ago on the the subject of Aaron's Jewish origins. Although he never practiced, Louis Aaron VC was Jewish on his father's side, who was in turn a son of Russian Jewish immigrants. After the award the family denied the Jewish connection but genealogical research on birth certificates etc prove otherwise and the nephew was adamant that the family were in denial, and that he himself was proud of this connection and visited and did business in Israel a lot as a result (if memory serves he was an importer or car tyres). He left me a phone number but when I called back a few days later the line was disconnected and I never heard from him again.
Aaron apparently boasted of his Jewish origins to comrades in the mess at the Texas air base where he trained (letter in the JC from a fellow pilot ,in our Jewish Military Museum Aaron VC file) and before the war was a member of the so called Salford ATC "Jewish Squadron"; when I contacted them about a photo of Aaron said still to hang in their drill hall, they never responded.
Martin Sugarman (Archivist of the AJEX Jewish Military Museum)
