BERLIN (AP) — Mevryud Genz, who worked for reconciliation after five family members were killed in the racist attacks that rocked Germany in the early 1990s, has died.
North Rhine-Westphalia authorities announced on Sunday that Genc had died at the age of 79, but no further details were provided.
Gench and her husband Durmus, who immigrated to Germany from Turkey, lost two daughters, two granddaughters and a niece when far-right extremists set fire to their home in the western city of Solingen in 1993. I was.
Attacks and other incidents that occurred around the same time raised international concerns over the resurgence of neo-Nazi sentiment after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Many of the victims were Turkish immigrants who came to Germany as “foreign workers” after World War II.
“The death of my family should pave the way for us to be friends,” she said at a memorial service shortly after the attack.
State Governor Hendrik West said Jenk “embodied a belief in human goodness like most others.”
“Her legacy lives on,” he wrote on Twitter. “Our thoughts are with her family.”
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