Leon Cohen

Leon Cohen (Greek: Λεών Κοέν; 15 January 1910 in Thessaloniki, Greece – in August 1989 in Bat Yam, Israel), was a Greek Jewish 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 Nadjari. He took part in the preparation of the Sonderkommando uprising.

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