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2001
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An Englishman in
Auschwitz
LEON GREENMAN
X
VALLENTINE MITCHELL
LONDON • PORTLAND, OR
Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Biographical Note xi
The Library of Holocaust Testimonies xii
by Martin Gilbert
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction 1
1 Before the War 3
2 The German Occupation 10
3 Westerbork 24
4 Birkenau 31
5 Auschwitz - in Hospital 49
6 Auschwitz - Camp Life 62
7 Monowitz 71
8 In Hospital Again 93
9 The Death March 104
10 Buchenwald 114
11 Liberation 123
List of Illustrations
Between pages 16 and 17
1 The corner of Gun Street and Artillery Lane, East London
Leon Greenman was born on 18 December 1910, at No 50
Artillery Lane
2 Clara Greenman, nee Morris, Leon's mother
3 Leon Greenman's birth certificate
4 The Jewish children of Helmersstraat in Rotterdam, 1914
Leon is in the third row, third from the left
5 Helmersstraat in its heyday Only one person in this picture
survived the Holocaust
6 The Zwaaf family selling ice cream at their grocery shop at
No 25 Helmersstraat in the 1930s
/
7 Family group From left to right: Leon's sister Dinah, brother
Morry (who fought in the British army), Morry's wife Dolly,
Leon and sister Kitty, who also stayed in Britain and survived
In order to stay with her friends the Cohens, who had been
sent there, Dinah went voluntarily to Auschwitz, where she
met her death
8 Leon and Else's wedding at the East London Synagogue in
Stepney on 9 June 1935 Leon's father stands next to him
9 Leon and Else's son, Barnett 'Barney' Greenman, born 17 March
10 Esther 'Else' Greenman, nee Van Dam
11 Leon as a member of the Br am Sanders boxing school,
Rotterdam, in 1938 His trained body probably saved him
from the selections, which meant the gas chambers if you
were too skinny and weak
12 The Greenman family in a neighbour's garden, 1942 Shortly
after this picture was taken, Jews were forbidden to visit non-
Jews, and a few months later Leon, Else and Barney were
taken from their home, along with Else's grandmother
13 Leon's identity card All Jews had to carry one, the 'J' denoting
'Jew'
14 Helmersstraat after bombing
15 Letter from the Mayor of Rotterdam which states that Leon has
not been called up to fight because of his English nationality
16 Gemmeker, third from left, the SS commandant in Westerbork,
standing with other officers in front of a transport (Photo
courtesy Westerbork Centre)
17 A transport from Westerbork, 19 May 1944 (Photo courtesy
Westerbork Centre)
Between pages 80 and 81
18 One of these huts is 'Loods 24' in Rotterdam, through which
some 12,000 Rotterdam Jews passed on their way to camps
19 Kurt Schlesinger, head of the administration department at
Westerbork camp, where Dutch Jews had to assemble before
being deported to concentration camps If Schlesinger had
opened his morning post before the train containing Leon and
his family left Westerbork, he would have found documents
relating to the Greenmans' British nationality Schlesinger
later escaped to the US, where he lived until his death
20 The entrance to Auschwitz II - Birkenau The trains arrived
on the right-hand track Abandoned luggage lies strewn on
the other tracks (Pahs two we Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau)
21 New arrivals at Birkenau being divided by the SS (Paristwowe
Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau)
22 Professor Horst Schumann, who experimented on Leon's
body at Auschwitz He was arrested in 1966 in Ghana, and
his case came up in 1970 However, in 1971 he was set free on
account of his 'illness'
23 Else and Barney Greenman's death certificates, which state
that they died 'in the region of Auschwitz' on 1 February 1943
ix
24 Evening Standard interview, April 1945
25 Leon in the British Red Cross hospital in France, recovering
from an operation on his foot With him are his French friends,
Gaston and Suzanne Pron
26 Telegram from Leon to his sister Kitty in London, searching
for information
27 Instructions from the US Commander of Buchenwald camp
for Leon, as a British subject, to be repatriated
28 Leon shows the number that will stay with him for the rest of
his life, 98288
29 Leen Sanders, European boxing champion, who survived
Auschwitz He died in Rotterdam in the early 1990s
30 Leon Borstrok, No 98281, the only other survivor of the 50
men chosen from Leon's transport
31 Leon as 'Leon Maure' - his stage name during his years as a
performer after the war
32 Leon behind his market stall
33 Leon as guide on one of the Anti-Nazi League's organised
trips to Auschwitz, September 1996 Leon is an active partici
pant in the ANL's work against racism
34 Leon receives his OBE from the Queen, 24 February 1998
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