Death of Rebecca Maraschek
September 27, 2016
It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of Rebecca Maraschek, an Abadi child, on September 27, 2016.
Rebecca Maraschek was hidden by a family she had lost track of until 2013. She said that she “did not want to die without paying tribute to those who had risked their lives to save hers”. Her quest came to a happy end in June 2013.
Rebecca was the last companion of Charles Gottlieb, who was deported to and then liberated from Auschwitz, and who had made it his mission to pass on the unspeakable, to accompany pupils to Auschwitz and tell them, explain to them what the camp and deportation were… More than 30 times he, the surviving deportee, retraced the steps of the murdered deportees. Charles Gottlieb died on May 8, 2015.
They were a couple united in their fight for peace. While others keep silent, they had chosen to speak, to bear witness for memory. They had chosen to pass on a message to the younger generations so that it would not happen again…
Rebecca’s funeral took place on September 29, 2016 in Metz, where she lived.