Violeta Friedman

Violeta Friedman
Born	1930 Marghita, Romania
Died	4 October 2000 Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Romanian Spanish
Occupation	Writer

Violeta Friedman (1930–2000) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor, activist, and author born in Marghita, Romania. In 1985, she sued Léon Degrelle, former leader of the Belgian fascist party Rex and Holocaust denier, for claiming that Josef Mengele, the Schutzstaffel officer stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp who had ordered the gassing of Friedman's family, was an ordinary doctor and that no gas chambers existed at Auschwitz. In 1995 Friedman published a book titled Mis memorias (My Memories).

Friedman died in Madrid, Spain on 30 October 2000.

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• Barromi, Joel (1995). "A Matter of Honour – Plaintiffs Locus Standi Recognized by Spain's Constitutional Tribunal". Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. 25. Brill Publishers: 151–68. doi:10.1163/9789004423091_008. ISBN 9789041102584.
• Roth, Stephen (2002). Antisemitism Worldwide, 2000/1. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803259454.
• Trías Sagnier, Jorge (2017). "La negación del holocausto: El caso de Violeta Friedman contra León Degrelle". Revista de Derecho, Empresa y Sociedad (REDS) (in Spanish) (10). University of La Rioja: 48–55. ISSN 2340-4647.