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Berlin Senate Weighs Memorial Options for Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedländer

Berlin’s Senate will work with the Margot-Friedländer Foundation to choose a lasting tribute after a period of mourning ahead of a July 9 commemorative service.

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Overview

  • The Senate is evaluating proposals including renaming Skalitzer Straße as Margot-Friedländer-Straße, naming a Neukölln school after her, and erecting a public monument.
  • The SPD faction in the Abgeordnetenhaus has urged the Senate to rename the Kreuzberg street where Friedländer lived from 1941 to 1943.
  • CDU and Greens legislators in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf have backed dedicating a Platz on the Kurfürstendamm as a memorial site.
  • An online petition on Change.org calling for a monument to Friedländer has gathered more than 50,000 signatures.
  • A public memorial service is scheduled for July 9 at the Philharmonie in Berlin to honor the Holocaust survivor who died at 103.