Margot Friedländerr has died. On the 80th anniversary of the release of the concentration and extermination field of Auschwitz-Birkenau, la survivor Friedländer, 103 has died. Until today, living memory of human atrocity, Friedländer has died after an exceptional longevity after surviving the Holocaust of World War II and Auschwitzwhere more than one million people were killed by the Nazis, most of them Jews.
Friedländer died on the day he was planned, he received the order of the merit of the Republic of Germany, which, according to the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, left the orphan country of the most relevant voice against anti -Semitism.
“Margot Friedländer was one of the strongest voices of our time: In favor of peaceful coexistence, against anti -Semitism and oblivion“Merz said in a message posted on his Netal X account that accompanied a recent photo of the now head of the Government with the Holocaust survivor.” Friedländer’s death fills me with deep sadness. He made our country the gift of reconciliation, despite everything the Germans had done to him when he was young, “said the German head of state.
Friedländer had highlighted in recent years for his work and commitment to historical memory in German society, which he helped as a witness to Nazis crimes to remember the sinister reality of the ‘Shoá’, the murder of six million Jews at the hands of the third ‘Reich’.
Born in Berlin and with her family murdered in extermination fields
Margot was born in Berlin in 1921. His father died in an extermination field in 1942, his mother and his brother were killed in the Polish concentration camp in Auschwitz. Margot Friedländer himself was deported to Theresienstadt In 1944. He was the only one of his first -degree relatives who survived the Holocaust. After more than 60 years of exile in New York, he returned to Berlin at the age of 88 and recovered German nationality.
For years, Friedländer contributed to maintaining the Historical memory of what happened during World War II. It is estimated that 11 million people died during this period, six million of them due to the one known as “final solution”, with which they exterminated two thirds from the European Jewish population.
“I lost my whole family”
In one of his last public appearances, Friedländer He recalled that it is the survivors who “know what happened and how it was.” Friedlander was a prisoner of the field of Theresienstadt, in Terezin, Czech Republic, while his mother and his brother were killed in Auschwitz. “I lost my whole family.”
On the increase in extremism and ultra -right speeches in Europe, Friedlander regretted that “then it also began.” “Be careful. Do not. Respect people, that’s the most important thing,” he says. Wars in Ukraine, in Congo or Gaza are an example that Friedländer’s fears were fully justified.
