(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 05 - The Holocaust survivor MargotFriedlaender has turned 100 receiving greetings from all the institutions of the Federal Republic, starting from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, passing from the spokesman of the Chancellor Steffen Seibert, up to the Foreign Ministry.
In her experience as a centennial Friedlaender lived 4 lives, she told Deutsche Welle. The first lived in Berlin with his family, until the abrupt interruption imposed by the terror of National Socialism, the second life was spent between the underground hiding places of the German capital and the hell of the Theresinstadt concentration camp until liberation in 1945, the third in New York in the US and finally the fourth began when at 88 he decided to move to his hometown, Berlin. Friedlander has been and continues to be a go-to voice in Germany not only for the testimony of past horror - "it's a mission I speak for those who didn't make it," he said - but also for a commitment to a future without discrimination.Friedlaender repeatedly recalled that the Shoah concerned not only the education of the Jews of Europe but the attempt to suppress homosexuals, Roma and Sinti, the disabled and political opponents. This is why he continued to talk in schools for years. "I feel I have done something, not just for my mother, not just for six million Jews, but for the many million people who were killed because they did not want to do what they were told to do," the survivor told the Shoah. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in Berlin, an exhibition with his portraits was inaugurated. (HANDLE).This is why he continued to talk in schools for years. "I feel I have done something, not just for my mother, not just for six million Jews, but for the many million people who were killed because they did not want to do what they were told to do," the survivor told the Shoah. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in Berlin, an exhibition with his portraits was inaugurated. (HANDLE).This is why he continued to talk in schools for years. "I feel I have done something, not just for my mother, not just for six million Jews, but for the many million people who were killed because they did not want to do what they were told to do," the survivor told the Shoah. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in Berlin, an exhibition with his portraits was inaugurated. (HANDLE).