Award for Margot Friedländer
The Holocaust survivor will be presented with an award by German President Steinmeier at the Westphalian Peace Conference in Münster today.
Münster (dpa) - Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer (photo) will be honoured at the Westphalian Peace Conference in Münster today. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will present her with the “Special Prize of the International Award of the Peace of Westphalia”, which is being awarded for the first time.
Margot Friedländer, who is 103, was born in Berlin in 1921. Her father died in a death camp in 1942, while her mother and brother were murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Margot Friedländer herself was deported to Theresienstadt in 1944. She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. After more than 60 years of living in exile in New York, she returned to Berlin at the age of 88 and took on German citizenship again.
The ceremony will form part of the Westphalian Peace Conference, which 400 guests are expected to attend in Münster. One important topic at the conference will be the drifting apart of the USA and Europe. The military and economic consequences of the three-year Russian war of aggression against Ukraine are also to be discussed.