Leon Greenman 1910-2008

Leon Greenman died last week and was, to the best of my knowledge, buried today in an Orthodox Jewish service.

He was the only Englishman to be imprisoned in Auschwitz, where he lost both his wife and baby son to the gas chambers. From the 1960s until his death Greenman was an active anti-fascist campaigner taking part in demonstrations against the National Front and British National Party; the direct political descendants of those that killed his wife and baby.

He would also speak publicly of his experiences in the camps in the hope that we would never forget the atrocities committed.

Never forget.