“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Max Mannheimer (1920 - 2016)
26.09.2016
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance regrets the passing of Max Mannheimer, Holocaust survivor and advocate for remembrance of the Holocaust, who passed away on 23 September at the age of 96.
Mannheimer’s key message when addressing the younger generation in Germany was: "You are not responsible for what happened, but you do have responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again."
Born on 6 February 1920 in the town of Novy Jicin in what is now the Czech Republic, Mannheimer was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 and later sent to Auschwitz and Dachau. Settling in Munich after the war, Mannheimer dedicated his life to talking about the horrors he experienced and also became the head of the community of former prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp.
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