This was confirmed by Helga Obens from the board of the Auschwitz Committee on Saturday. She fell asleep peacefully in the Israelite hospital. For decades, Bejarano was active against right-wing extremism and xenophobia, for which she received many awards.
“We and her family mourn this great, courageous and imperturbable woman, survivor of the Auschwitz and Ravensbrck concentration camps, anti-fascist, chairwoman of the Auschwitz Committee and honorary president of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime – Association of Antifascists, Sngerin, Witness of Time”, announced the Auschwitz Committee. “Today we want to pause. And be silent and mourn. Then to fulfill Esther Bejarano’s order:” Never be silent again when injustice happens. “
Nazis murdered their parents
Bejarano was born in Saarlouis as the daughter of a Jewish chief cantor. Her parents were murdered by the Nazis in Lithuania and she had to do forced labor in a camp before she was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943. After the war she emigrated to Israel, but returned to Germany with her husband in 1960.
