Only Englishman sent to Auschwitz dies aged 97

Leon Greenman, the only Englishman sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, died today, a museum said. He was 97.

Greenman was born in London in 1910 but was living in the Netherlands with his Dutch wife and young son when the family was sent by the occupying Nazi forces to the camp in 1943.

His wife Esther and three-year-old son Barney died there but Greenman managed to survive the war and committed the rest of his life to telling the public about the horrors he had witnessed at Auschwitz and the five other camps he was sent to.

He published a memoir, An Englishman in Auschwitz, and continued to lecture well into old age.

In 1988 he received the OBE from the Queen for his work fighting racism.

Greenman was liberated from the Buchenwald camp in April 1945 by the American 3rd Army.

He never remarried and leaves no children, the London Jewish Museum said on its website.