Margot Friedländer: Berlin faculty is known as after distinguished Holocaust survivor | EUROtoday

The Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium in Berlin-Spandau is the primary German faculty to be named after Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer (1921-2025). As the inspiration named after the deceased introduced on Monday, the varsity convention of the highschool unanimously determined to alter the identify to “Margot-Friedländer-Gymnasium”.

According to the data, the Spandau district workplace nonetheless has to approve the renaming. The faculty is at present named after the author and physician Hans Carossa.

According to the inspiration, the request for the renaming was made throughout Friedländer’s lifetime. Foundation chairwoman Karsten Dreinhöfer defined, “Margot Friedländer was very happy about it and was proud of it.”

Friedländer spoke to college students about her life story

School principal Henning Rußbült defined that Friedländer had spoken frequently with the scholars in regards to the Holocaust and their life tales since 2011: “Your call to act humanely and behave with respect towards others has left a lasting impression and has become a model for our school community.” On Holocaust Remembrance Day on January twenty seventh, the highschool and the inspiration are organizing a memorial night for the deceased.

Margot Friedländer died on May 9, 2025 on the age of 103 in her native Berlin. She was the one one in her fast household to outlive the Theresienstadt focus camp. After the Second World War she went to New York along with her husband. At the age of 88, she returned to Berlin in 2010 and attended numerous faculties till her dying. Her saying: “Be human” grew to become well-known.