Esther Béjarano

Esther Béjarano (née Löwy; 15 December 1924 – 10 July 2021) was one of the last survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

[1] She was a regular speaker at the International Youth Meeting organised yearly at the Max Mannheimer Study Center in Dachau.

[2] Born Esther Löwy, she was a daughter of Margarete (Heymann) and Rudolf Loewy,[3] the head cantor of a Jewish municipality, in Saarlouis.

She was a co-founder and chairman of the International Auschwitz Committee and honorary chairperson of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime.

[1][11] Béjarano was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal of the Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte [de] in 2004.

[15] She was honoured with ethecon's 2013 "Blue Planet Award" [16] for her "relentless activity for peace and against anti-Semitism, racism and fascism".

Bejarano at a rally against the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), in 2009