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Margot Friedländer — a survivor and witness to the Nazi Holocaust and a prominent voice in modern-day Germany — passed away on Friday at the age of 103.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences, saying that Friedländer "gifted our country reconciliation."
Steinmeier was due to honor Friedländer with a state medal on Friday.
Friedländer spent most of the war years hiding in Berlin before she was taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944.
She emigrated to the United States shortly after the end of the war, only returning to the German capital in 2010, at the age of 88.
Friedländer appeared on the cover of the German Vogue last year.
Edited by Sean Sinico
