Enlarge image Commitment into old age: Margot Friedländer performing at a Berlin school (archive photo from 2017) Photo: Britta Pedersen / dpa Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer (100) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Freie Universität Berlin. The cultural scientist Aleida Assmann explained that she embodies in an outstanding way a form of democratic education that appeals to the mind and the heart in equal measure. Friedländer's impetus is so important at a time "when fewer and fewer contemporary witnesses of the Holocaust are still speaking out and on the other hand the composition of society is changing rapidly," the...