Before him European Parliament, Margot Friedlander around his neck he wears an amber necklace from which he never separates. It was the last memory left to him by his mother after being transported to Auschwitz. At 100 years old in November, Friedländer can say that he has achieved it: he is living memory of the horror of the Holocaust. A life dedicated to telling how, being just in her twenties, she survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and, already close to his ninety years, decided to return to Berlin to fulfill a mission: to ensure that no one forgets what happened.
Coinciding with the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the European Parliament joined this Thursday the long list of public places in which Friedländer has told the world his testimony and his warning that “it can happen again”.
“In many countries, no one lifted a finger to save their Jewish neighbors from deportation,” he recalled before the European Parliament. In the video at the head of the news you can listen (with subtitles) the story of his life. Since her brother was arrested and she was left alone in Berlin where she spent fifteen months hiding in different friends’ houses before being arrested, she also tells how her life was in the concentration camp and why, after a long time, she returned to ” his Berlin.
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