Holocaust survivor is German Vogue's new cover star: Incredible life of 102-year-old who dyed her hair black and tore off her yellow star to hide from the Nazis before being sent to a concentration camp German-Jewish Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is Vogue's oldest star READ MORE: Outrage as last known surviving Nazi concentration camp guard, 99, 'who helped to murder 3,300' at notorious WW2 prison known for gas chambers and horrifying medical experiments is ruled unfit to face trial By Monique Rubins For Mailonline Published: 11:52, 9 July 2024 | Updated: 13:49, 9 July 2024 e-mail 13 shares 36 View comments A glamorous woman with a sleek bob and gold jewellery smiles warmly on the cover of the July/August edition of German Vogue in a bright red peacoat by Italian designer label Miu Miu. It is exactly the sort of cover the world's foremost fashion magazine is known for, only the striking woman on the front is neither a supermodel nor a film star, rather Margot Friedländer, née Bendheim, is a 102-year-old German-Jewish Holocaust survivor. After her mother and her younger brother were deported to Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943, Margot went into hiding and sought to disguise herself by dyeing her hair and wearing a necklace with a cross.
While she was helped by some Germans, she was ultimately betrayed to the SS and deported to Theresienstadt on June 16 in 1944 where she saw 'so many people murdered'. Her entire family were killed at Auschwitz the previous yea.
