The daughter of a Jewish classmate of Anne Frank rescued from the horrors of Bergen Belsen concentration camp has met the British officer who saved her mother's life. Grateful Elizabeth Kahn, 59, flew to Israel to meet Major Leonard Berney, 93, from Plymouth, Devon, and present him with a special silver platter paid for by the family in recognition of his heroics. Jewish Leonard, of the British 11th Armoured division, was one of the first army officers through the gates of Belsen when the camp was liberated on April 15, 1945. Before the Holocaust: A school photo from 1941 shows Nanette Blitz Konig (left), aged 12, a classmate of Anne Frank (right)
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Leonard Berney, 93, was one of the first through the gates at Bergen Belsen
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He rescued Nanette Blitz Konig, who Frank wrote about in her famous diary
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The two schoolgirls saw each other at the concentration camp
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Her daughter called Mr Berney, himself Jewish, an 'amazing man'
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