{"id":304,"date":"2022-06-06T06:43:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T06:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/?post_type=preistraeger&#038;p=304"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:02:22","slug":"felicia-langer","status":"publish","type":"preistraeger","link":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/preistraeger\/felicia-langer\/","title":{"rendered":"Felicia Langer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Note: The following article was written during the lifetime of the award winner. Felicia Langer died on June 22, 2018 in Eningen unter Achalm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felicia Langer was born in Tarnow, Poland as the daughter of a lawyer. With the coming of the German Army they fled to Israel. She studied Law and became a lawyer in 1965.\n\nAfter the 6-days-war she gave legal assistance to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. She helped those who faced life-threatening situations, including deportation, imprisonment, and torture. As a result of her work, the citizens of Nazareth made her an honorary citizen.\nIn the course of three years the Intifada closed her law practice. In the 1990s she moved to Germany, with the awareness that she would face issue as a Jew whose family was killed by the Nazis. Langer taught there at the University of T\u00fcbingen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" translation-block\">She has received many awards in addition to the Bruno Kreisky Prize, including \u0093Erich-M\u00fchsam-Prize\u0094 in March of 2005 and the alternate Nobel Peace prize in 1990.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The following article was written during the lifetime of the award winner. Felicia Langer died on June 22, 2018 in Eningen unter Achalm. Felicia Langer was born in Tarnow, Poland, the daughter of a lawyer. Before the German army invaded, she fled to Israel with her family. She studied law and became a lawyer in 1965. After [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-304","preistraeger","type-preistraeger","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/preistraeger"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/preistraeger"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreisky-menschenrechte.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}