Author: GEIR MOULSON Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 09/05/2025 | 18:26:58
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Margot Friedländer died the week of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender in World War II. Friedländer was honored with Germany’s highest decoration and with a statue at Berlin’s City Hall. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences in a statement. Friedländer, her mother and younger brother went to live with her grandparents. In 1941, they had to move to a so-called “Jewish apartment”. Friedländer returned home to discover that her brother, Ralph, had been taken away by the Gestapo. Adolf Friedländer stayed away from Germany for 57 years. She and her husband became U.S. Citizens; she worked as a tailor and later ran a travel agency.
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