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British born Leon Greenman was a father and a husband living in the Netherlands at the time of Nazi occupation. Leon was unable to prove his and his family’s British identity and they were first sent to the deportation camp Westerbork and then on to Auschwitz-Birkenau where his wife Else and his son Barney were murdered upon arrival. Leon survived 18 months of concentration and labour camps and made a promise to tell his story to the outside world. A promise he kept from 1946 until his death in March 2008.