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."Major Leonard Berney: First British officer to liberate Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp dies aged 95", The Independent"Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph"Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank", Nanette Blitz Konig, Amsterdam Publishers (2018), He also testified in the Belsen trial."Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus
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.Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp – A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney, page i., 2015 He attended Brighton College"Major Leonard Berney's son on Belsen concentration camp", The Argus and then St Paul's School, London 1933–38."Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney - obituary", The Telegraph
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