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Leonard Berney

Leonard Berney

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Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney (11 April 1920 – 7 March 2016) was a British soldier who was one of the first British officers at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.[1][2][3] He also testified in the Belsen trial.[4]

Leonard Berney in his 80s
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In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published the memoir Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney.[5] He attended Brighton College[6] and then St Paul's School, London 1933-38.[7]

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  1. [1]
    "Major Leonard Berney: First British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp dies aged 95", The Independent
  2. [2]
    "Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph
  3. [3]
    "Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank", Nanette Blitz Konig, Amsterdam Publishers (2018), ISBN 978-9492371614
  4. [4]
    "Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus
  5. [5]
    Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney, page i., 2015 ISBN 978-1511541701
  6. [6]
    "Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus
  7. [7]
    "Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph
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