Margot Friedlender, one of the most recognizable survivors of the Holocaust, left her last breath on Friday night at the age of 103. She had returned to Germany after decades of residence in New York in order to devote her life to raising young people about the crimes of the Nazi regime. “I am talking on behalf of those who failed to do so,” she said in an interview on ARD public television a few weeks ago, and tonight was to be honored with the Grand Cross of the Order of Value by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Her story has become more widely known through documentaries and her memoirs and in recent decades has been repeatedly honored – and at a highest level, such as former US President Joe Biden. Margot Friedlender was born in a Jewish family in Berlin in 1921. Her mother and brother were murdered in Auschwitz’s concentration camp and she was arrested and sent to the Camp of Terezenstad (her Terezin […]
Source: News Beast
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