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Jan 27, 2016 · Eva Schloss, 86, is an Auschwitz survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank. Both Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam together and the pair played together as children until their ...
Eva Schloss was one of just a few to be invited to participate in the extraordinary and extremely elaborate project “New Dimension of Testimony” by the USC Shoah Foundation. In the future, visitors to museums and exhibitions will be able to ask the witness questions, and she, having been recorded in a special way, will provide suitable ...
Jun 5, 2015 · After 40 years in the background as her mother and stepfather—Anne Frank’s father, Otto—dedicated their post-war lives to keeping the memory of Anne Frank alive, Eva Schloss found her own voice. Ironically, it was at an Anne Frank exhibit in London in 1986, when she was unexpectedly put on the spot and asked for comment that Schloss ...
Jan 27, 2020 · Photo: courtesy of Eva Schloss The betrayal: My father told us the family had to split up – no one in the Resistance would take a family of four and if we split up there was a greater chance at ...
Now approaching 80, Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s posthumous step-sister, devotes her life to educating others around the world about the importance of tolerance and respect for difference. As she tells me her story on a cold winter’s day in 2008 I am stupefied at her lack of bitterness. “Otto Frank, Anne’s father, helped me a lot after the ...
Jan 22, 2020 · Eva Schloss: One morning we woke up and there were no Germans. I saw a huge figure standing, all covered in snow and fur. I thought it was a bear, and then I went a bit closer and I saw the first ...
Born Eva Geiringer in Vienna, Austria, Eva and her family fled to the Netherlands after Germany annexed Austria in 1938. They were neighbors of Anne Frank’s family during their time in Amsterdam. After the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, Eva and her family went into hiding. The family was later betrayed and sent to Westerbork Concentration ...
