LONDON
\nEva Schloss, the Auschwitz survivor who dedicated decades to educating people about the Holocaust and was the step-sister of diarist Anne Frank, has died aged 96, her foundation announced Sunday. In a tribute, her family expressed their \u201cgreat sadness\u201d at the loss of this \u201cremarkable woman: an Auschwitz survivor, a devoted Holocaust educator, tireless in her work for remembrance, understanding and peace\u201d.
\nSchloss died on January 3 in London, according to the Anne Frank House. King Charles III, who danced with Schloss at an event in London in 2022, and his wife Camilla, patron of her Anne Frank Trust UK foundation, said they were \u201cgreatly saddened\u201d. \u201cWe are both privileged and proud to have known her and we admired her deeply,\u201d the royal couple said in a statement. Schloss co-founded the trust in 1990 to educate people about the Holocaust and combat prejudice.
\nBorn Eva Geiringer in Austria in 1929, she was a child when the Nazis annexed her country. Her Jewish family fled to Belgium and then Amsterdam where they settled opposite Anne Frank\u2019s house. Frank\u2019s accounts of the Holocaust have become a symbol of the suffering inflicted by the Nazis during World War II. The two girls were the same age and often played together. But from 1942 onwards, both families had to go into hiding.
\nSchloss, her mother Elfriede, her father Erich and her brother Heinz were betrayed two years later by a Nazi sympathiser. They were arrested on her fifteenth birthday and sent to the Auschwitz extermination camp in May 1944. Schloss was able to stay in touch with her mother but was separated from her father and brother, who both died in the camps. Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
\nAfter the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet army in 1945, Schloss and her mother returned to the Netherlands where they met Anne\u2019s father Otto Frank, who was a widower upon his own return from Auschwitz. Otto encouraged Schloss to pursue photography, and in 1952 she moved to London to study and met her future husband, Zvi Schloss. Elfriede and Otto married in 1953.
\nEva and Zvi Schloss, who had three daughters, obtained British citizenship. Eva Schloss also regained her Austrian citizenship in 2021, aged 92. She wrote several books and recounted her experiences around the world, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2013.
\n\u201cInto her 90s, she spoke with tireless passion, often giving several talks a day, including in prisons and schools,\u201d Gillian Walnes, vice president of the Anne Frank Trust UK said in a statement. \u201cEva\u2019s legacy lives on in the lives she touched and the history she so bravely kept alive.\u201d \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON Eva Schloss, the Auschwitz survivor who dedicated decades to educating people about the Holocaust and was the step-sister of diarist Anne Frank, has died aged 96, her foundation announced Sunday. In a tribute, her family expressed their \u201cgreat sadness\u201d at the loss of this \u201cremarkable woman: an Auschwitz survivor, a devoted Holocaust educator, tireless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-523982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n