Leslie Brent

Leslie Baruch Brent MBE MEASA (5 July 1925 – 21 December 2019) was a British immunologist and zoologist.

In 1938, at age 13, to escape the rising anti-Semitism of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) and teachers, Brent was sent to England on the first of the Kindertransports and became a pupil at Anna Essinger's Bunce Court School.

As a secular Jew who escaped the Holocaust, Brent was highly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

[6][7] In 2012 he was interviewed and filmed for the documentary The Essential Link: The Story of Wilfrid Israel by Yonatan Nir, in which he talked about his Kindertransport experience.

[10] He was posthumously appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to Holocaust education.