Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 96

Eva Geiringer, a jew, was born in Vienna on May 11, 1929. Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938, which instantly brought immediate danger to jews all over the country. Eva, her parents, and her brother moved to Merwedeplein Square in Amsterdam, where Eva met the teenager Anne Frank. They often pålayed in the square, but as the nazis arrived, Eva and her family went into hiding.

After two years, a nurse, who worked for the nazi regime, betrayed the family, and they were discovered. On May 11, 1944, on Eva’s fifteenth birthday, Schloss and his family were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Eva Schloss’ brother, Heinz, and father, Erich, died in the holocaust. Eva and her mother survived, but after the war, she didn’t speak of the traumatic experience. It took 40 years before she revealed what she had been through.

“I talked about this for the first time in 1988, when the exhibition dedicated to Anne Frank came to London. I was far from politics, but I realised that the world had not learned any lessons from the events of 1939 to 1945, that wars continued, that persecution, racism, intolerance still existed. And then I began to share my experience, to call for changes in the world,” Eva said.

Praised by King Charles