Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96
by Danielle Haynes · UPIJan. 5 (UPI) -- Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank, died in Britain, the Anne Frank Trust announced. She was 96.
"It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our dear mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eva Schloss," a statement from her family said. "Eva was a remarkable woman: an Auschwitz survivor, a devoted Holocaust educator, tireless in her work for remembrance, understanding and peace."
Born in Austria as Eva Geiringer, she came to known Anne as children when her family moved to Amsterdam. The Geiringer family moved from house to house in hiding before a Nazi sympathizer betrayed them to the Germans in 1944.
The young Eva, her brother, mother and father were sent to concentration camps. Eva and her mother survived Auschwitz, while her brother and father were killed.
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After the war, she resettled in London and married Zvi Schloss. Her mother, Frtizi, married Anne's father, Otto, the only member of the Frank family to survive the Holocaust.
Eva Schloss dedicated her life to educating people about the Holocaust and advocating for world peace. She wrote three books: Eva's Story, After Auschwitz and The Promise.
In 1990, she was co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK, an organization teaching young people to challenge prejudice in the world.
"We must never forget the terrible consequences of treating people as 'other," Eva Schloss said in 2024. "We need to respect everybody's races and religions. We need to live together with our differences. The only way to achieve this is through education, and the younger we start the better."
British Queen Camilla was a patron of the Anne Frank Trust UK, and King Charles issued a statement Sunday mourning Eva Schloss' death.
"My wife and I are greatly saddened to hear of the death of Eva Schloss," he wrote.
"The horrors that she endured as a young woman are impossible to comprehend and yet she devoted the rest of her life to overcoming hatred and prejudice, promoting kindness, courage, understanding and resilience through her tireless work for the Anne Frank Trust U.K. and for Holocaust education across the world.
"We are both privileged and proud to have known her and we admired her deeply. May her memory be a blessing to us all."