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Leon Cohen
Leon Cohen ((ギリシア語: Λεών Κοέν ); born 15 January 1910 in Thessaloniki, Greece and died in August 1989 in Bat Yam, Israel), is a Jewish-Greek survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was a member of the ''Sonderkommando'' in Birkenau from May 1944 to January 1945. He is one of the only three members of the ''Sonderkommando'' who wrote his memoirs after the war,〔See Gideon Greif, ''We wept without tears'', Yale University Press, 2005, p. 80 : ''Only four former members of this unit published memoirs : Marcel Nadjari, Leon Cohen, Filip Müller, and Miklos Nyiszli.'' We can consider that the last writer mentioned by Dr. Greif, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, may not be really part of the ''Sonderkommando'', as he was performing autopsies for Dr. Josef Mengele, even if he was living with the members of the ''Sonderkommando''. The other books about ''Sonderkommando'' members, such as Shlomo Venezia or Daniel Behnnamias, are testimonies or interviews, and not strictly speaking memoirs.〕 along with Filip Müller〔Filip Müller, ''Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers'', Stein and Day, 1979.〕 and Marcel Nadjary.〔Marcel Nadjary, ''Χρονικό 1941–1945 ()'', Ιδρυμα Ετσ - Αχα'ι'μ, Thessaloniki, 1991.〕 He took part in the preparation of the ''Sonderkommando'' uprising.
==Biography==
The father of Leon Cohen was a well-off, successful merchant, which was importing goods from Germany and Austria and had commercial relations with small merchants in Brussels. Leon Cohen had two sisters, Agnes and Margot, and one brother, Robert. He went to the ''Leon Gatenyo business school'', a French-German institution. He was given a strong French education and learned the finest French literature, because the teacher was the principal and founder of the ''Chevalier de la Liaison Francaise'' school. After he graduated, he first worked at the Thessaloniki international fair. Later on, he worked for Decca Records, an enterprise that sold records and radio sets. Before the occupation, he was an official supplier for the Greek Ministry of Defense. Later on, he was drafted into the Greek army. He was arrested in 1942, like thousands of young Jewish men, and was sent to the German prison in Thessaloniki, from where he escaped. On January 15, 1943, he married to his first wife, Germaine Perahia, the daughter of Yehoshua Perahia, owner of the Bank Union (along with Joseph Nehama) in Thessaloniki. The Jews of Thessaloniki were sent in a ghetto from which he escaped with his wife. He arrived in Athens and was arrested by the Germans, while his wife and her parents could hide themselves.〔Ya’akov Gabai: ''I’ll Get Out of Here!'' in Gideon Greif, ''We wept without tears'', Yale University Press, 2005, p. 209: ''One the men who was in the Sonderkommando, a Greek named Leon Cohen, is still alive. He was married to the daughter of a bank manager in Salonika. When Cohen was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, his wife fled with her father.''〕 He was sent to the Haidari concentration camp.
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