Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 96

Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor who helped preserve the legacy of her stepsister Anne Frank and who spent decades educating people about the dangers of prejudice, died on Saturday at a care home in London. She was 96. Ms. Schloss was freed from Auschwitz in 1945 but remained silent about her ordeal for more than 40 years, only beginning to speak publicly in 1986 when she was invited to open a traveling Anne Frank exhibition in London.

She co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK and spent much of her later life traveling to speak to young people and others about injustice; her family said they hope “her legacy will continue to inspire through the books, films and resources she leaves behind,” in a statement published by the trust.

Born Eva Geiringer in Vienna on May 11, 1929, her family fled to Brussels and then Amsterdam, where they were neighbors and friends of the Franks. The Geiringers hid for about two years before being discovered and deported in May 1944; Ms. Schloss and her mother were liberated by Soviet forces in 1945.

Her father and brother were killed near the end of the war, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says. After the war she studied art history and photography, married Zvi Schloss in 1952, and her mother later married Otto Frank. King Charles III praised her for “overcoming hatred and prejudice,” and Ms.

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