Leonard Berney

Leonard Berney
Born (1920-04-11)11 April 1920
London, England
Died 7 March 2016(2016-03-07) (aged 95)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Years of service 1939–1946
Rank Lieutenant-Colonel
Commands held Military Governor of Schleswig-Holstein
Battles/wars Second World War
Other work Company Managing Director

Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney (11 April 1920 – 7 March 2016) was a British soldier who was the first British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen.[1][2][3] In 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, he published "Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney" [4]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/major-leonard-berney-first-british-officer-to-liberate-bergen-belsen-nazi-camp-dies-aged-95-a6919681.html
  2. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12190100/Lieutenant-Colonel-Leonard-Berney-obituary.html
  3. ↑ "Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank", Nanette Blitz Konig, Amsterdam Publishers (2018), ISBN 978-9492371614
  4. ↑ "Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney", page i., 2015 ISBN 978-1511541701
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