Max Friediger
{{Short description|Danish rabbi}}
{{Infobox Jewish leader
| name = Max Moses Friediger
| title = Chief Rabbi of Denmark
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|04|09|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|04|09|1884|4|9|df=y}}
| image = Max Friediger.jpg
| birth_place = Budapest, Austria-Hungary
| death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark
}}
Max Friediger (9 April 1884 – 9 April 1947{{Cite web|title=Max Friediger|url=https://gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=maxfriediger|website=Kendtes gravsted|language=da}}) was a Danish chief rabbi and a survivor of the Holocaust.
Biography
After the occupation of Denmark by the Wehrmacht, Friediger and other high prominent Danish Jews were interned in 1943 in the open state prison at Horserød camp, and later deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp{{cite book | last = Silverman | first = Jerry | title = The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust | publisher = Syracuse University Press | location = Syracuse | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-0-8156-0708-3 }} via Swinemünde where on 3 October 1943 he and other Danish Jews were spotted by Danish communists also being deported.{{cite book|last= Nielsen |first= Martin |authorlink= Martin Nielsen (politician) |year= 1947 |language= da |page= 28 |title= Rapport fra Stutthof |trans-title=Report from Stutthof |publisher= Gyldendal}} Friediger led the church register of approx. 480 Danish Jews{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} in a synagogue located in a storeroom within the camp{{cite web|url=http://www.heritageabroad.gov/projects/czech2.html|title=Terezin's Hidden Synagogue, Czech Republic|accessdate=2011-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813005841/http://heritageabroad.gov/projects/czech2.html|archive-date=2009-08-13|url-status=dead}} and later published an account of life in Theresienstadt.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}
After his death in 1947, his successor as chief rabbi was Marcus Melchior.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}}
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