Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer honoured for life achievements

Yahoo

15-05-2025

Several speakers at the funeral service for Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer in Berlin have paid tribute to her efforts to promote humanity and stand up against hatred.
The chairman of the Jewish Community of Berlin, Gideon Joffe, recalled Friedländer's mother, father and brother were all murdered by the Nazis and that she survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
"But from this past, you emerged as someone who wasn't looking to hate, but to remember, who wasn't looking to accuse, but to tell," said Joffe.
Friedländer, who passed away on Friday aged 103, symbolized warmth, approachability and compassion, traits that make a person human, he said.
The rabbi of the Chabad Jewish community in Berlin, Yehuda Teichtal, described Friedländer's story as "one of strength and unbreakable humanity."
Her legacy teaches us to always try to make the world a more humane and better place, Teichtal added.
Friedländer was one of the last living Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and among the best known in Germany, thanks to her outspokenness and tireless campaigning to make sure the atrocities committed during the Holocaust will never be repeated.