""My wife and I are greatly saddened to hear of the death of Eva Schloss. The horrors that she endured as a young woman are impossible to comprehend and yet she devoted the rest of her life to overcoming hatred and prejudice, promoting kindness, courage, understanding and resilience through her tireless work for the Anne Frank Trust UK and for Holocaust education across the world. "We are both privileged and proud to have known her and we admired her deeply."
""As a girl, Eva Schloss-Geiringer lived on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam, opposite Anne Frank's home," the trust said. "Like Anne, Eva and her family had to go into hiding from the Nazis, and after two years spent underground they were tracked down, arrested and deported. Eva survived Auschwitz." By the time Mrs Schloss and her family were liberated by the Soviet army in January 1945, Ms Schloss and her mother Elfriede Frank were barely alive. Her brother and father both died in captivity."
Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's step-sister and a Holocaust survivor, has died in London aged 96. She and her family fled Austria and became refugees in the Netherlands, where they went into hiding from the Nazis before being arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Eva survived Auschwitz while her brother and father died in captivity and she and her mother were barely alive at liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945. Her mother later married Otto Frank. Eva co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK, served as its honorary president, and spent decades educating against hatred and prejudice.
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