The BBC report the death of Leon Greenman, 97, the last English survivor of Auschwitz. In 1943, Mr. Greenman was living in Holland with his Dutch wife and 3-year old son when the Germans rounded them all up. His wife and son perished but he survived to be rescued finally by the Americans when they liberated Buchenwald. Returning to Britain he maintained a steady campaign to tell the world the truth concerning the concentration camps. In a final and bitter irony, when interviewed in 1995 as part of the 50-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the BBC found Mr Greenman living in a prison of his own making with bars on his windows and letter-box because he had been targeted by neo-Nazis. Perhaps an example of 'sick' transit gloria!
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