Leon Cohen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Thessaloniki-born Jew, sonderkommando survivor of the Birkenau camp
Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1910
Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Nationality: Greece, Israel
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Leon Cohen
- Leon Cohen (Greek: ?e?? ????; born 15 January 1910 in Thessaloniki, Greece and died in August 1989 in Bat Yam, Israel), was a Jewish-Greek survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- He was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau from May to November 1944.
- He was one of the only three members of the Sonderkommando who wrote his memoirs after the war, along with Filip Müller and Marcel Nadjary.
- He took part in the preparation of the Sonderkommando uprising.
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