Margot Friedländer Foundation
Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and one of the most prominent witnesses of the horrors of Nazism
“This never, it can never happen again!” German Margot Friedländer, a burnt offering survivor and one of the most prominent witnesses of the horrors of Nazism, died on Friday at 103 in Berlin, where he was born.
Germany cries the death of Margot Friedländerthis Friday, the day it would receive one of the highest awards in the country.
The news of the disappearance of the Holocaust survivor, at 103was given by Margot Friedländer Stiftung, the foundation that bears his name.
“Germany has lost an important voice of contemporary history. Since its return to its hometown, after more than six decades in exile in New York, Honorary Citizen of Berlin He was tirelessly committed to reconciliation and memory, says the foundation.
Margot “offered reconciliation to our countrydespite all that the Germans did to you when they were young. We could not be more grateful For this gift, ”said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Born in 1921, in a family of button manufacturers, then Margot Bendheim became a seamstress. Had a fragile aspect and always dressed in elegance; It was the cover of Vogue magazine in 2024, notes the AFP agency.
During Nazism, he lost his parents and the younger brotherkilled in concentration camps. In 1944, it was sent to Theresienstadt, in what is currently the Czech Republic, where she met her husband, Adolf Friedländer. After the end of World War II, Margot and Adolf married and went to live to the United States.
Margot Returned to Berlin in 2003. Since then, he has devoted his life to talking to young people to tell your story and defend empathy as an antidote against hatred.
“Be human! People did what they did because they didn’t recognize people as people, ”Margot said in 2022 in a speech in the European Parliament on the Holocaust’s memory day.
“You can’t love all people, but All deserve to be respected. There is no Christian blood, Jewish blood, Muslim blood, There is only human blood. We are all the same, ”he said.
“What happened, it happened – we can’t change that anymore,” concluded Margot Friedländer. “Just can’t, never happen“.
