The stars of Vogue covers are usually celebrities and top models, but the glossy fashion magazine has broken with tradition to celebrate a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor as its cover star. Margot Friedländer, born Anni Margot Bendheim in Berlin in 1921, is the latest to be shot for the cover of the German edition for July/August. Friedländer, whose elegant portrait is on the cover, was interviewed by the fashion bible about her lifelong commitment to Holocaust education.
“Don't look at what separates you. Look at what unites you,” she told the magazine in an interview. Margot set up a charitable foundation in her name after her family was murdered at Auschwitz and is one the most well-known survivors in Germany.
Vogue journalist Miriam Amro interviewed the survivor for the magazine. Durfte Margot Friedländer in ihrer Seniorenresidenz in Berlin besuchen: Writing about her meeting with Margot, Amro said: “She still remembers exactly how it all started. That’s why she wants to speak.
On behalf of the victims who can no longer speak. “Margot’s mother voluntarily surrendered to the Nazis when her younger brother was taken away, leaving Margot behind. In 1943, when she was 21, she had to go into hiding and live underground.
Germans helped her, but probably not always without expectations of her. She doesn’t talk about what exactly she had to endure and put up with. “She had her nose operated on because she looked “too Jewish”, dyed her hair red, and put a.