BERLIN – Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, one of the last living Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 103, the Margot Friedländer Foundation announced on Friday.
Friedländer, who was born in Berlin in 1921, went into hiding in the city and was eventually sent to the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in 1944, in what was then Czechoslovakia. Her father, mother and brother were killed in Auschwitz.
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She and her husband, whom she met in Theresienstadt, emigrated to the United States in 1946.
After he died, she started to visit Berlin in the 2000s and moved back permanently in 2010 at age 88. She had working tirelessly telling young people in Germany about the Nazi regime ever since.
(dpa)