Max Friediger

Max Friediger (born April 9 1884 in Budapest, died 1947 in Copenhagen) was a Danish chief rabbi and a survivor of the Holocaust.

After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht together with other Danish Jews, he was interned as a hostage by the occupying power in 1943 in the open state prison at Horserød, and later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp.^[1] Friediger led the church register of approx. 480 Danish Jews in a synagogue located in a storeroom within the camp^[2] and later published an account of life in Theresienstadt.

After his death in 1947, his successor as chief rabbi was Marcus Melchior.

References

^ Silverman, Jerry (2002). The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815607083.
^ "Terezin’s Hidden Synagogue, Czech Republic". http://www.heritageabroad.gov/projects/czech2.html. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

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Name	Friediger, Max
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Date of birth	April 9, 1884
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Date of death	1947
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