Violeta_Friedman

Violeta Friedman

Violeta Friedman

Roman Holocaust survivor, activist, and author

Violeta Friedman (1930–2000) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor, activist, and author born in Marghita, Romania.[1] In 1985, she sued Léon Degrelle, former leader of the Belgian fascist party Rex and Holocaust denier, for claiming that Josef Mengele, the Schutzstaffel officer stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp who had ordered the gassing of Friedman's family, was an ordinary doctor and that no gas chambers existed at Auschwitz.[2][3] In 1995 Friedman published a book titled Mis memorias (My Memories).

Quick Facts Born, Died ...

Friedman died in Madrid, Spain on 30 October 2000.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Violeta Friedman". 31 January 2005.
  2. [2]
    Trías 2017, p. 49.
  3. [3]
    Barromi 1995, pp. 151–53.
  4. [4]
    Roth 2002, p. 143.

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