Leon Greenman

Leon Greenman OBE (18 December 1910 – 7 March 2008) was a British anti-fascism campaigner and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He gave regular talks to school children about his experience at Auschwitz, and also wrote a book, An Englishman in Auschwitz.

The Holocaust gallery of the Jewish Museum London is dedicated to Greenman's story.

Early life Greenman was born on 18 December 1910 in Whitechapel in the East End of London, almost immediately. Greenman was sent in a different direction, one of 50 men selected to be labourers.

Greenman was tattooed on his arm with prisoner number 98288, and became a slave labourer. Surviving another sorting after 6 weeks, he worked as a barber, and sang to the kapos in the evenings. Greenman would never remarry. working on a market stall for 40 years, and also performing as a tenor under the stage name "Leon Maure". In 1993, he joined the demonstration calling for the closure of the British National Party headquarters in Welling in south-east London. He received an OBE for services against racism in 1988. It was then suggested that a memorial should be erected in Valentines Park peace garden in Ilford. The memorial was funded by donations and was unveiled in 2009.