102: Pictures

 Margot Friedländer

(Margot Friedländer stands beside a portrait of herself on her 100th birthday)

(Disguised as a Christian: Margot Friedländer in the spring of 1943. At that time, she had already been living underground for several months and wore a necklace with the Christian cross, which she had previously received as a gift from a helper, as a camouflage.)

(Important memento: Margot Friedländer keeps her mother's notebook to this day. It contains numerous addresses abroad and documents the Jewish family's years-long, ultimately unsuccessful efforts to leave Nazi Germany. When Margot's mother turned herself in to the Gestapo, the notebook was one of three items she left to her daughter – in the hope that it could be useful to her.)

(Departure to a new home: Adolf and Margot Friedländer during the ship passage to the USA in July 1946. The two had met before the deportation while working for the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin and married in 1945 after liberation in the Theresienstadt camp. They lived together in New York for more than 50 years before Adolf Friedländer died in 1997. He never wanted to visit Germany again after the war. In 2010, Margot Friedländer finally decided to leave the USA and return to her old hometown of Berlin.)