HOLOCAUST survivor Leon Greenman gave a harrowing account of his wartime experiences when he visited Burnley.
He was speaking at a meeting organised by the Burnley and Pendle Anti Nazi League.
Almost 200 people attended the meeting at the United Reformed Church.
Mr Greenman travelled from his home in the London area where he was born.
But he spent much of his childhood in Rotterdam, Holland, where in 1942 he and his family were rounded up with other Jews and sent to a transit camp at Westerbork before being sent on to Auschwitz where his wife and son were selected for the gas chambers immediately on getting off the train.
Leon was kept alive as slave labour, one of only 50 from 750 on that train to survive.
Burnley MP Peter Pike was unable to attend the meeting but sent a message saying he had always supported the work of the Anti Nazi League in Burnley combating the forces of Fascism.
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