| LC control no. | no2008059030 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Friedlander, Margot, 1921- |
| Biography/History note | By moving back to Berlin three years ago, Margot Friedlander, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, has become an unlikely celebrity in the land where she was once persecuted. In 1946, when she immigrated to New York with her husband, they both vowed never to set foot again in Germany. Most members of both their families were murdered at Auschwitz. Friedlander was 21 years old when the Gestapo came to arrest her family. Her brother, Ralph, was 17. She was not home when the Gestapo came, but returned while they were still there. When she saw them outside, she covered her Jewish star and passed the guards as if it were not her home. She went instead to a Jewish neighbor who imparted her mother's message -- that she should "try to make a life." |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1921 |
| Place of birth | Berlin (Germany) |
| Affiliation | Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia Holocaust survivors |
| Found in | "Versuche, dein Leben zu machen", 2008: t.p. (Margot Friedlander) p. 17 (b. 1921) Forward.com website, 25 October 2016: article dated November 4, 2013 ("Meet Margot Friedlander, Berlin's Unlikely 92-Year-Old Jewish Celebrity,") <http://forward.com/news/world/186565/meet-margot-friedlander-berlins-unlikely-92-year-o/> Wall Street journal website, 25 October 2016: article dated October 7, 2013 ("Holocaust Survivor Found 'Home' at 92nd Street Y" ; It was a class at New York's 92nd Street Y that gave Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander a chance to tell the story of her life and to begin a new one. Now, Ms. Friedlander, 91 years old, is hoping to give other seniors an opportunity to learn and to flourish. She is donating $500,000 to support the Himan Brown Senior Program and the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life at the 92Y. The gift is in her name and that of her late husband, Adolf Friedlander, who died in 1997.) <http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304626104579121680027316864> |
| Associated language | ger eng |
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