The “mission” of Margot Friedländer, centenarian and voice of the Holocaust

EShe is often invited, this very old lady who is still so lively and dignified, to Berlin schools. “I speak for those who did not survive,” she told the hundreds of young Germans who came to listen to her. And I do it for you. We cannot change what happened. But, if I didn’t tell you what happened, you wouldn’t know. » Speak tirelessly in schools. And tomorrow, in front of the European Parliament. This is the “mission” given to herself by Margot Friedländer, centenarian, Berliner and survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp (in what is now the Czech Republic).

Margot Friedländer is from Berlin. His grandparents, his parents, his cousins ​​were from Berlin. One of those German Jewish families unable to imagine the…