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Danish Rabbi
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Place of birth
Budapest, Central Hungary, Hungary
Place of death
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark, Kingdom of Denmark
Age
63 years
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Biography
Max Friediger (April 9, 1884 – 1947) was a Danish chief rabbi and a survivor of the Holocaust.
Biography
After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht Friediger and other Danish Jews were interned by the occupying power in 1943 in the open state prison at Horserød, and later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp via Swinemünde where on 3 October 1943 he and other Danish Jews were spotted by Danish communists also being deported. Friediger led the church register of approx. 480 Danish Jews in a synagogue located in a storeroom within the camp and later published an account of life in Theresienstadt.
After his death in 1947, his successor as chief rabbi was Marcus Melchior.
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