Margot Friedländer in the Humboldt Forum Photo: Olaf Selchow
By Pauline von Pezold
Margot Friedländer – who has just turned 102 – actually celebrated another premiere on Tuesday evening.
The documentary drama about her life was shown in the Humboldt Forum shortly before it was shown on ZDF that evening. “I am! “Margot Friedländer” tells the moving story of the Holocaust survivors.
Margot Friedländer is a young girl in Berlin when the catastrophe of National Socialism hits her and her family – they are Jews. Margot loses her relatives, is hidden, betrayed and then deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, but she survives.
Iris Berben, Axel Prahl and Herbert Knaup agreed to take part in the film without hesitation. Margot Friedländer, honorary citizen of Berlin, was thrilled with the production team’s result: “You managed to create the images as they were.”
The documentary drama is available in the ZDF media library.