The Holocaust survivor from Vienna Eva Schloss is on Saturday at the age of 96 years in London died. This is reported by Kathpress, citing the portal Jewish News.
She was one close friend of Anne Frank long after Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she was adopted by her father. As co-founder and honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust, Schloss campaigned for the memory of the Shoah and tolerance well into old age.
Castle was opened in 1929 Eva Geiringer born in Vienna. She fled the Nazis with her Jewish family to the Netherlands and met Anne Frank, who had fled Germany at the same age, in Amsterdam, with whom she then became close friends.
Both families had to go into hiding, but were betrayed and deported. Schloss’s father and brother were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp (KZ). Anne Frank, whose diary she wrote in hiding later became famous, died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly before the end of the war.
Later step-sister of Anne Frank
Frank’s father Otto married Schloss’s mother for the second time in 1953 and adopted Eva. She settled in London, where she met her husband Zvi Schloss and took on British citizenship. In 1990 she was one of the founders of the Anne Frank Trust. The foundation’s programs commemorate the Holocaust. In 2021, Schloss received his Austrian citizenship back.
The British King Charles III. paid tribute to the deceased in a statement: “The horrors she experienced as a young woman are impossible to understand, and yet she dedicated the rest of her life to overcoming hatred and prejudice,” said the monarch. He and his wife Camilla felt honored to have known Schloss.