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Leonard Berney
British soldier (1920–2016) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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