Fragile -looking woman, always dressed in elegant way – was really Vogue’s cover in 2024 – had returned to Berlin hometown in 2003
Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor and one of Germany’s most eminent witnesses from Nazi horrors, died Friday in Berlin, at the age of 103 announced its foundation.
Margot Friedländer should have received on Friday one of the highest German decorations from the hands of head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Fragile -looking woman, always dressed in an elegant way – was really Vogue’s cover in 2024 – had returned to the Berlin hometown in 2003.
He began to dedicate his life to contact with young people to tell them their history and promote empathy as an antidote against hatred.
Born Margot Bendheim, in 1921, from a family of buttons manufacturers, followed a sewing formation.
During Nazism, his parents and brother murdered in concentration camps.
She herself was sent in 1944 to Theresienstadt in the current Czech Republic, where she found what would become her husband, Adolf Friedländer.
The two survived, married went to the US.
After the husband’s death in 1997, he found German producer Thomas Halaczinsky, who proposed to him to go to Berlin to run a documentary about his life.
In 2010, he definitely returned to Berlin.
