Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96

UK’s King Charles III praises Schloss for her lifelong enactment connected ‘overcoming hatred and prejudice’ astir the world.

Eva Schloss, the Auschwitz subsister who dedicated decades to educating radical astir the Holocaust, and who was the stepsister of diarist Anne Frank, has died aged 96, according to her foundation.

The Anne Frank Trust UK, of which Schloss was the honorary president, said connected Sunday that she died connected Saturday successful London, wherever she lived.

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The United Kingdom’s King Charles III said helium was “privileged and proud” to person known Schloss, who co-founded the charitable spot to assistance young radical situation prejudice.

“The horrors that she endured arsenic a young pistillate are intolerable to comprehend, and yet, she devoted the remainder of her beingness to overcoming hatred and prejudice, promoting kindness, courage, knowing and resilience done her tireless enactment for the Anne Frank Trust UK and for Holocaust acquisition crossed the world,” the king said.

In a connection posted connected X, the European Jewish Congress said it was “deeply saddened” by the passing of Schloss, who it described arsenic a “powerful voice” for Holocaust education.

Born Eva Geiringer successful Vienna successful 1929, Schloss fled with her household to Amsterdam aft Nazi Germany annexed Austria.

She became friends with different Jewish miss of the aforesaid age, Anne Frank, whose diary would go 1 of the astir celebrated chronicles of the Holocaust.

Like the Franks, Eva’s household spent 2 years successful hiding to debar seizure aft the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. They were yet betrayed, arrested and sent to the Auschwitz decease camp.

Schloss and her mother, Fritzi, survived until the campy was liberated by Soviet troops successful 1945. Her father, Erich, and brother, Heinz, died successful Auschwitz.

After the war, Eva moved to the UK, joined German-Jewish exile Zvi Schloss, and settled successful London.

In 1953, her parent joined Frank’s father, Otto, the lone subordinate of his contiguous household to survive.

Anne Frank died of typhus successful the Bergen-Belsen attraction campy astatine the property of 15, months earlier the extremity of the war.

Schloss did not talk publically astir her experiences for decades, aboriginal saying that wartime trauma had made her withdrawn and incapable to link with others.

“I was soundless for years, archetypal due to the fact that I wasn’t allowed to speak. Then, I repressed it. I was aggravated with the world,” she told The Associated Press quality bureau successful 2004.

But aft she addressed the opening of an Anne Frank accumulation successful London successful 1986, Schloss made it her ngo to amended younger generations astir the Nazi genocide.

Over the pursuing decades, she spoke successful schools, prisons and planetary conferences, and told her communicative successful books, including Eva’s Story: A Survivor’s Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank.

She kept campaigning into her 90s.

“We indispensable ne'er hide the unspeakable consequences of treating radical arsenic ‘other’,” Schloss said successful 2024.

Schloss is survived by their 3 daughters, arsenic good arsenic grandchildren and great-grandchildren.