Holocaust Survivor and historian Saul Friedländer has called on the Germans to defend themselves against hatred for minorities, and against nationalism. “Anti-Semitism is only one of the Scourges, of which now one Nation after another creeping attack”, said Friedländer, in his speech, in the hour of commemoration, the German Bundestag for the victims of the Holocaust in Berlin on Thursday. “The xenophobia, the lure of authoritarian rule practices and, in particular, of a further intensification of nationalism around the world are alarmingly on the rise,” he said.
Germany have developed from the experience of the Nazi time to the strong bulwark against these threats, said Friedländer, who survived the Holocaust in hiding, while his parents were murdered in the extermination camp of Auschwitz. He hoped, that Germany had the moral strength, tolerance and inclusiveness, humanity and freedom “to fight in short for the true democracy,” – said the Holocaust researchers.
Friedländer, who emigrated to Israel in 1948, lamented growing anti-Semitism in the Form of a questioning of Israel’s right to exist on the part of the extreme Right and Left. “For Jews like me and Jews everywhere, who needed a state of their own, and longed for, was the creation of life is necessary,” he said. To defend the existence of the state, is a fundamental moral obligation.
The 1932 née Friedländer described in the German Bundestag, moving the history of his family. The Parliament paid tribute to his speech with a standing ovation. President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) had previously demanded, to let the crimes of the Nazis are not forgotten. The culture of remembrance is the task of the civil society and the state, said Schäuble.
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Friedländer convert came at 11. October 1932 in Prague, as the only son of Jan and Elli Friedländer to the world. His parents were not religious, and the typical representative of the assimilated Jewish bourgeoisie in Central Europe, as Friedländer wrote later in his autobiography, “When memory comes”. When the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, escaped the family to France.
in 1942, wanted to escape the parents in Switzerland, but have been sent by the Swiss police officers to Vichy France, and eventually deported to Auschwitz. Friedländer was only informed after the war by a Catholic priest about the Holocaust. His parents had agreed to prior to their escape, that their son was baptized in the boarding school, Catholic and educated.
peaceful countries converted in the result to Judaism and immigrated to Palestine. There, he witnessed the founding of the Israeli state. After studying political science in Tel Aviv and Paris, he began his academic career in Geneva, where he was in 1967, Professor. Later he took up history Professor in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. (epd)
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