March 8, 2008
He bore witness
An Englishman who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz and dedicated his life to telling the story of the Holocaust, has died, aged 97.From the BBC.Leon Greenman was living in Holland with his Dutch wife Esther, and their son, when they were rounded up in 1943 and sent to the death camp in Poland.
His wife and three-year-old son Barney died there but London-born Mr Greenman survived six different death camps. . .
Mr Greenman later said he had promised God if he lived, he would let the world know what happened during the war. . .
BBC Jerusalem correspondent Tim Franks, who interviewed Mr Greenman in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, said he literally lived behind bars there - with bars on the windows and his letterbox sealed - as he had been targeted by neo-Nazis.
Posted by David on March 8, 2008 4:52 PM
With the years doing what the Nazis death machine could not: finally end the lives of the Holocaust survivors, the witness of the last should be recorded. I am amazed how dim and faded concern with what happened has become. I recall learning somewhere that every day of the struggle that was World War II, 29,500 died--every day! How do we remember the rumble of the trains that worked 24/7 to haul the collected from every part of Europe to their deaths and the smoke that carried the remains of countless bodies into the clouds.
Posted by: Donald Wolberg on March 9, 2008 12:02 AM
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