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Renate Lasker-Harpprecht in 2018 in the Bundestag, surrounded by Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elke Büdenbender
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The author and journalist Renate Lasker-Harpprecht died ten days before her 97th birthday in La Croix-Valmer, France.
Lasker-Harpprecht in Breslau survived the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps together with her sister Anita.
After the liberation in 1945 she went to Great Britain.
Lasker-Harpprecht worked as a journalist for the BBC, WDR and ZDF.
In 1974 she published the novel "Family Games".
Shortly after the end of the war, she was interviewed for the first time as a contemporary witness.
Last year - on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp - Renate Lasker-Harpprecht spoke to SPIEGEL about anti-Semitism and nationalism and answered the key question of how Auschwitz survivors see the political present.
Five years earlier, for the cover story "The Last Witnesses", she was asked by SPIEGEL about her ordeal in Auschwitz.
At that time, a team of editors compiled the memories of 19 survivors in the US, Israel and Europe.
The story was published in January 2015 and was then published in an expanded form as a book.
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