Funeral of Margot Friedländer
Three Chancellors say goodbye to Berlin
Three Chancellor took part in the funeral service for the Holocaust-surviving Margot Friedländer. Merz and Scholz wore Kippa.
A lot of political prominence said goodbye to Margot Friedländer (1921-2025) on Thursday: Chancellor Friedrich Merz (69) as well as his predecessors, former Chancellor Olaf Scholz (66) and former Chancellor Angela Merkel (70), the Holocaust-survivor in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin has shown the last honor. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (69), his predecessor Joachim Gauck (85) as well as President of the Bundestag Julia Klöckner (52) and Berlin’s governing mayor Kai Wegner (52) also came to the funeral. The gentlemen wore Friedländer in honor of Kippa, the traditional headgear of male Jews.
As other photos show, actress Iris Berben (74), director Wim Wenders (79), moderator Dunja Hayali (50) and talk show host Sandra Maischberger (58) were also on site.
sang Max Raabe (62) “somewhere in this world”. And Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (53), who accompanied Margot Friedländer in the last days before her death, appealed to the mourning community: “Let us continue the message from Margot … It is the beginning of an obligation to make the world a better, more human place with millions of good deeds.”
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer died on May 9th
The contemporary witness and Holocaust-surviving Margot Friedländer died on Friday, May 9th, at the age of 103. This was confirmed, among other things, the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner (CDU), on his official X account. Friedländer was an honorary citizen of the capital, where in 1921 she saw the light of day as the daughter of a Jewish family.
Her parents were murdered by the National Socialists in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and she was initially dipped, but was later deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Like her later husband, she survived the horrors of the Nazi era and then moved to the United States. After the death of her husband, she returned to her home country at the age of 88 and settled in Berlin again. Until the end, she was passionate about forgetting the crimes during the Nazi era.
Friedländer was a carrier of numerous prizes and awards. Among other things, she was awarded the first class Federal Cross of Merit in 2023, and the Federal Cross of Merit was awarded to her in 2011. In 2022 she also received the honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.
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Source: Stern
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