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Eva Schloss, Anne Frank's Stepsister and Holocaust Activist, Dies at 96
Eva Schloss co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK and dedicated decades to Holocaust education, warning against hatred and prejudice.
- Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank’s posthumous stepsister, died Sunday at 96, the Anne Frank Trust UK announced and CNN reported.
- After more than four decades of silence, Eva Schloss began speaking publicly following an Anne Frank exhibition in London long ago and later wrote three books, co-founding the Anne Frank Trust UK.
- Both families went into hiding on the same day and, after two years in concealment, were betrayed and deported to Auschwitz, where her father Erich Geiringer and older brother Heinz were killed while she and her mother Fritzi survived.
- Britain's King Charles III praised Eva Schloss for transforming her suffering into a mission for tolerance, while the Anne Frank Trust UK called her `a remarkable woman` devoted to remembrance and peace.
- Schloss became a prolific speaker at schools and universities to share her testimony, saying the world had not learned lessons from the war, shaping Holocaust education for younger generations.
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Eva Schloss-Geiringer, who after surviving the Holocaust was adopted by Anne Frank's father, died in London at the age of 96, as announced on Monday by the Anne Frank Foundation.
Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor, stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank, and tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.
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