Margot Friedländer, Holocaust Survivor, who found his voice, dies in 103

Margot Friedländer in New York before returning to Germany in 2010, a Holocaust Survivor, Holocaust Survivor, a holocaust and Survivor, who found his voice to Germany – a celebrity to young Germans and Last year landed on the lid of the German Vogue – Died on Friday in Berlin. It was 103.

Death, in a hospital, declared Margot Friedländer Foundationan organization that promotes tolerance and democracy.

“It helps me to talk about what happened.”

Ms. Friedländer and his husband Adolf – AMERICA is known as EDDIE, due to the evident reasons – in the summer of 1946, New York came to New York. They settled into a small apartment in Kueens in Kew Gardens. 92nd Street Y, a cultural center of Manhattan’s upper eastern side, found a job as a compactoler of the 92nd street, and he became a travel agent.

The couple was married in the camp at the boarding school; Once in America, they do not talk about any shared experience. Mr. Friedländer was strange that he never returned to the country that killed his families. When he died in 1997, Mrs. Friedländer began to think of what the rest.

He found a society in Y and then signed a memorial writing class on Jo Frances Brown, who was then the Program Director. However, it was a few weeks before they attend. Other students, all Americans wrote about their families, children and pets. One night, who could not sleep, began writing and said his first stories were the early childhood memories.

Stories, “Try to do the” ” ” ‘: A Jewish girl hidden in Nazi Berlin, “said Malin Schwerdtfer and published in Germany in 2008.

But he already found his mission. The documentary director said, documentary director, documentary director, Ms. Friedländer was working on a memorial and in 2003 he convinced him to return to Berlin and said his story because he re-visited the city. Mr. Halaczinsky’s film “Heimweh naming” is freely translated as “nostalgia” – came out next year.

The experience of returning in Berlin made him sink. At one time, he was welcomed by the city that rubs him once. He began to talk to young people in schools in the country, so many were amazed that there was no concept about the Holocaust.

Mrs. Friedländer became 21 when Gestapo came to the family. He was in his work in his younger brother Ralph at a weapon factory, his work in his younger brother Ralph. Came to find the front door sealed and protected.

To hide the yellow star in the coat, which declared the identity of the Jew, Mrs. Friedländer slipped in the neighbor’s house. There, a 16-year-old son of his mother, a shy and obvious child, learned that his mother became the police because he could be with him. Talisman, the necklace of the daughter, the necklace of the amber buns, a short message presented by an address book and neighbor: “Try to do your life.”

He walked for the first night and went to a hair hall in the morning and put his dark hair into Titian red. The next 15 months were often hidden, often hidden in hand-captured writer’s addresses, often hidden, often stopped, often stopped.

There was the rank, contaminated apartment in the month with a dog with a dog. The couple who had sex until the rent (Ms. Friedländer decreased). Billet is infected with the bedroom. Gambling. He was able to wear a cross-sized plastic surgeon, so he was able to pass a plastic surgeon to make his nose for free. The couple kindly couple with a black market job that develops in the meal.

No homeowner was Jewish. But it was the Jews that turned it: two men who hold the Jewish, two people working for Gestapo to get rid of the deportation.

After the arrest, Mrs. Friedländer was sent to Theresienstadt a city in Bohemia, where the Germans turned a hybrid ghetto-camp and a road station. It was June of 1944. The detainees were sent to destruction, but 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt, where the disease was rampated and food.

There, Mrs. Friedländer met with Adolf Friedländer, who recognized Berlin in a Jewish Cultural Center, as an administrative director, and worked as an administrative director in the suit. He did not think of many of him at that time. The age of 12 was bespectacled and the crown. Found him arrogant. However, Theresienstadt, Berli disappeared, no, and his wife.

He said he wanted him to marry him. They were the days of war, and the guards began to flee as the Russian army approached.

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A year later, they floated to the port of New York. When the Liberty Statue came out of the mist, Mrs. Friedländer was bilateral. Behold, the symbol of freedom, but in memory, the American family did not receive the most. He would not be citizenship and he would feel this way in the next six decades.

Anni Margot Bendheim was born on November 5, 1921, Berlin. His mother, Auguste (Gross) came from a prosperous family, but when they were independent, and when they were married, the father of Margot turned into Arthur Bendheim, who turned his own button, which has become turned to Arthur Bendheim, and has become a knit button. Marriage was unhappy and the couple was divorced when Margot was a teenager.

Margot loved fashion and he went to the school of trading to learn the drawing for fashion and advertising. In the early 1937 he began to disciples in a dress hall. Nuremberg laws have been robbed by the Jews of the rights and enterprises for two years. Margot’s mother was hopeless to emigrate, but the father of two disabled sisters refused. Only the number of Jewish Émigrés did not have quotas to America and other guest countries, but disability and disease were disqualified.

After divorce, Auguste worked in a hot way to find a way out. Many hopeful, steamed as the documents promised by a man who took his money and missing.

Margot and Ralph were adopted to work in a factory that gives a weapon for German servicemen. During this period, his father was unaware of Belgium, his ex-wife and children. Would then die in Auschwitz.

This took years to learn the fate of his mother and brother, Mrs. Friedländer. Their deaths were approved in 1959, but the details would be in four decades from deportation lists in the German Jewish history in the Leo Baect Institute in New York. Also sent to Auschwitz. Sent to gas chamber after his mother arrived; brother, a month later.

Mrs. Friedländer returned to Berlin in 2010. Since then, it has been a mission to tell the story of the youth. In 2023, he was awarded the Federal Cross Crossed Cross in the highest in the German government.

“He always said he had four lives,” Mr. Halacins, director, said in an interview. “Without the film, I do not know that he returned to Berlin. But he did, he found a new life. It was a strong woman; it was a great effort.”

Last summer, Mrs. Friedländer appeared in the German vogue cover, radiating in a bright red coat. There was only one covering line: The word “love” – ​​the subject of the issue – Mrs. Friedländer’s vibration, his signature put it under it.

He said the “terrible” magazine in the rise of anti-Semitism and distant nationalism. But he warned: “Look at what separates us. Look at the side that brings us together. People. Be sensitive.”