Margot Friedländer tirelessly travels through Germany. The 103-year-old speaks to students, she talks to politicians in conscience, she explains journalists what it means not to be allowed to have any hope anymore and still not to lose them.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, she even guided millions of Germans in the “Tagesschau” at 8 p.m. She appealed to humanity and democracy so that the atrocities of the Nazis never repeat themselves. She advised us all: “Be human”.
The size of the Margot Friedländer is not to be one of the last reminiscent. In the next few years there will be no more people who had to experience the Holocaust, survived. This was denied six million Jews. They were exploited by the Nazis, degraded, and finally murdered in a terrible way.
Margot Friedländer advertises human beings
Friedländer keeps living this speechless crime, even if many people find it difficult to get involved. More than 40 percent of all Germans, especially young people, know nothing to do with the terms Holocaust and Shoa. You hear about it in class, but you have problems understanding the background. This is not your fault. You need help. You have to learn what anti -Semitism is, why fascism and National Socialism came about.
It is not enough if you keep hearing that you shouldn’t choose neo-Nazis. Against ignorance and delusion-driven by fake news and the omnipresent hyperemotical and highly personalized messages on the Internet-only helps education.
This is exactly what Margot Friedländer stands for. She explains and illustrates. Your message is not emotion or the desire to remain in mourning and therefore silence. Friedländer is an educator, a voice of reason. Listening to her means getting involved in what was and what is. This results in an unmistakable agenda for the future. We all share the same blood, we all have our fate in our own hands.