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by Leon Greenman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 132 pages
  • Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd (1 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0853034249
  • ISBN-13: 978-0853034247
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,266 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Leon Greenman was born in London in 1910. His paternal grandparents were Dutch, and at an early age, after the death of his mother, his family moved to Holland, where Leon eventually settled with his wife, Esther, in Rotterdam. Leon was an antiquarian bookseller, and as such travelled to and from London on a regular basis. In 1938, during one such trip, he noticed people digging trenches in the streets and queuing up for gas masks. He hurried back to Holland with the intention of collecting his wife and return with her to England. The whispers of war were growing louder and louder. In May 1940, Holland was overrun by the Nazis, by which time Leon and his family had been effectively abandoned by the British Consulate and stranded with neither passports nor money. Eventually, they were deported to Birkenau where Esther and their small son, Barney, were gassed on arrival. Leon was chosen with 49 others for slave labour. This book tells the story of Leon's remarkable survival, of the horrors he saw and endured at Auschwitz, Monowitz and during the Death March to Gleiwitz and Buchenwald camp, where he was eventually liberated.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book should be on the national curriculum for schools., 7 Jul 2001
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Leon Greenman, a remarkable man who was a victim of Nazi persecution, keeps the horrors of his dreadful and harrowing past alive in the pages of his book for all to see. His hope is that the Nazi atrocities of the mid-20th Century will never be repeated.

This book is easy to read. Leon writes as though he is talking to you. This writing style is the only way that can do justice to the content. The book highlights the very worst of the human race - yet we see glimmers of the very best of the human race too.

The historic facts of the Nazi occupation during WW2 come alive, and the picture section rounds off the book very well.

Would I recommend this book? If I could afford to, I would buy it for everyone I know. Why? To keep Leon's memories alive long after he has gone- lest we forget.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful man, but a harrowing story to tell..., 6 Jan 2003
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I read, and eventually bought this book after Leon spoke to my school sixth-form. It tells the story of the plight of so many jewish victims of the hideous persecution of the German Concentration camps.

Leon's personal story is one of huge sadness but one that everyone should know about.

Everyone should buy this book, and if you do get the chance to speak to this wonderful, elderly man, take the oppurtunity.

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars i have had the pleasure of meeting him, 14 Feb 2002
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the day before writing this book, i had the honour of meeting this fantastic gentleman on a school vsot. he spoke to us for 2 hours about his story, such an emotional one at that. leon (as he wished us to call him) explained that he had to find out in books after the war the fate of wife esther and son barney, this was shoking. his life at various camps was hard, living off no food nor water or anything for years occasionally he got raw potato skins to eat, yet how these people survived years of this beats me. it was disgusting to see that only 8years ago when leon was 83, he received a death threat from a neo nazi. this book should be read by all, it captures the true events, things people could not possibly imagine.read it, you have no idea about the holocaust until you have read it
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best witness
Here we have a book which should be part of every school curriculum.

WE must remember them.
Published 20 months ago by Alexander

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply remarkable
Leon is a remarkable man whose story is extraordinary and a testimony to his amazing strength of character and spirit. Read more
Published 22 months ago by LH

5.0 out of 5 stars must read
i havnt yet read the book, but Leon came into my school in a visit, and i think everyone should here what he has gone through and here his advice. A powerful & disturbing story.
Published on 9 Oct 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars An Unbelieveable Story Of A Man Struggling To Survive
This is an EXCELLENT book that shuld be read to people all over the world to show how evil the Nazi's really was. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2001

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