Margot Friedländer died last Friday at the age of 103.
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Flags fly at half-mast in Berlin on this Thursday to mark the funeral of deceased Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer.
All authorities and buildings in Berlin have been ordered to fly flags of mourning, according to the Interior Administration.
The funeral of the honorary citizen of Berlin is planned for Thursday at the Jewish cemetery in Weißensee. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, among others, is expected to attend. Margot Friedländer died last Friday at the age of 103. As a Jew, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, she emigrated to the USA, but returned to her native Berlin at an advanced age. Since then, she has campaigned for humanity and democracy, against forgetting Nazi crimes and against hatred at numerous events, for example at schools.