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Elfriede Geiringer (Fritzi; née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of World War II and the Holocaust. She was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank.
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Elfriede Markovits was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 13, 1905. She married Erich Geiringer and the couple had two children: a son, Heinz, born in 1926, and a daughter, Eva, born on May 11, 1929. The family fled first to Belgium and then to the Netherlands in 1938, where they settled down as neighbours to the Frank family. Eva and Anne knew e...
When the Germans invaded Holland and Heinz received a call-up to a work-camp, the family went into hiding. They successfully hid for two years and might have survived the war if they had not been betrayed in May 1944. They were then captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They were liberated in January 1945 by the R...
Elfriede Geiringer and Otto Frank married in November 1953 and settled in Basel, Switzerland. They spent a large part of their time educating people about the importance of Anne Frank's diary and the horrors that the Jews experienced during the Holocaust. Their commitment led to the creation of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
After living long enough to see the birth of five of her great grandchildren, Elfriede Frank died peacefully in her sleep on October 2, 1998 at her home in London.
Eva Schloss MBE [1] (née Geiringer; born 11 May 1929) is an Austrian-English Holocaust survivor, memoirist and stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank. [1] Schloss speaks widely of her family's experiences during the Holocaust and is a participant in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive project to ...
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Oct 2, 1998 · Elfriede Edith Geiringer - Markovits. Born on: Feb. 13, 1905. Born in: Wenen, Oostenrijk. Died on: Oct. 2, 1998. Died in: Londen, Groot-Brittannië. Foto van Otto Frank en Fritzi Frank-Markovits zittend op een bankje, Putney, 1954. Vervaardiger onbekend. Fotocollectie Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. Rechthebbende (n) onbekend.
Elfriede Geiringer (Fritzi; née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of World War II and the Holocaust. She was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank.
On 27 January 1945, 15-year-old Eva Geiringer and her mother Elfriede were among the around 7,000 people who witnessed the liberation of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps by the Soviet Army.
On 10 November 1953, Otto Frank and Elfriede Edith ('Fritizi') Markovits got married in Amsterdam. It was the second marriage for both of them. The witnesses were Jo Kleiman and Miep Gies. Like Otto, Fritzi had lost her partner in a concentration camp.
