Margot Friedlander, a German Jew who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and became a prominent witness to Nazi persecution in her final years, has died at the age of 103.
The Margot Friedlander Foundation in Berlin announced her death on its website.
At present, information about the location and reason for her departure has not been disclosed.
She died in the week that marked the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender in World War II.
After spending most of her life in the United States, Ms. Friedlander returned to Berlin at the age of 80.
She received Germany's highest award and a statue in Berlin's City Hall.
“What I do gives me strength and perhaps energy because I speak for those who can no longer speak,” Ms. Friedländer said at an event at Berlin’s Jewish Museum in 2018.
“I would like to say that I speak not only on behalf of the six million Jews who were murdered, but also on behalf of all the innocent people who were murdered,” she added.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences in a statement, stressing that she brought reconciliation to Germany despite the terrible trials she had to endure in her life.
Mr Steinmeier noted that the country could not be grateful enough for her gift.
A report released last month said more than 200,000 Jewish survivors were still alive, but 70% of them could disappear within the next 10 years.
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