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The author and journalist Renate Lasker-Harpprecht passed away ten days before her 97th birthday in La Croix-Valmer, France. Lasker-Harpprecht in Breslau survived the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps along with his sister Anita.
After liberation in 1945 he went to Great Britain. Lasker-Harpprecht worked as a journalist for the BBC, WDR and ZDF. In 1974 he published the novel “Family Games”. Shortly after the end of the war, she was interviewed for the first time as a contemporary witness.
Last year, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp, Renate Lasker-Harpprecht spoke with SPIEGEL about anti-Semitism and nationalism and answered the key question of how Auschwitz survivors view the political present.
Five years earlier, for the cover story “The Last Witnesses,” SPIEGEL interviewed her about her martyrdom at Auschwitz. At that time, a team of editors collected the memories of 19 survivors in the United States, Israel and Europe. The story was published in January 2015 and subsequently published in expanded form as a book.
