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Auschwitz survivor dies

LONDON: Leon Greenman, the only Englishman sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, died on Friday, London’s Jewish Museum said. He was 97.

Mr. Greenman was born in London in 1910 but was living in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife and young son when the family was sent by the occupying Nazi forces to the camp in 1943.

His wife Esther and three-year-old son Barney died there but Mr. Greenman managed to survive the war and committed the rest of his life to telling the public about the horrors he had witnessed at Auschwitz and the five other camps he was sent to.

He published a memoir, “An Englishman in Auschwitz,” and continued to lecture well into old age. — AP

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