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Bernat Rosner (born 29 January 1932) is a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. As the only survivor of is family he went to the United States of America in 1948 and became a U.S. Citizen in 1953.

Bernat Rosner was born in 1932 in Tab, Hungary as member of an ultra-orthodox Jewish family. In 1944 he and his family were deported to concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Later he was transported to concentration camp Mauthausen. He was to only member of his family to survive the camps.

The story of Bernat Rosner is told in the book An uncommon friendship (2001) written by Bernat Rosner and Frederic C. Tubach. Tubach has the same age as Rosner but was the son of a Nazi military officer. After they became friends in California they decided to publish the story of their youth and their friendship.

Bernat Rosner graduated fom Cornell Univeristy (1954) and Harvard Law School (1959). Before retiring in 1994 he was General Counsel of Safeway, Inc. (1984-1993), Vice Chair of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (1990-91), author of several articles and frequent lecturer on the Robinson Patman Act.