To some, Vidal Sassoon was the man who inspired a million haircuts, celebrity hairdresser to the stars and the man behind the liberation of women from the “tyranny of the salon” but there was another side to the hairdresser who passed away in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday 9^th May 2012.

Vidal Sassoon was born in the January of 1928 in the Hammersmith district of London to Jewish parents, Betty (Bellin) and Nathan Sassoon.  It was this Jewish heritage that would see the young Vidal become the youngest member of the 43 Group, a Jewish veterans’ underground organisation that fought against anti-semitism during the dark days of World War Two.