"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 UK and for Holocaust education across the world,"
"I was silent for years, first because I wasn't allowed to speak. Then I repressed it. I was angry with the world,"
Eva Schloss was born in Vienna in 1929 and fled with her family to Amsterdam after the Nazi annexation of Austria. She became friends with Anne Frank and spent two years in hiding with her family after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Her family was betrayed, arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where she and her mother survived until liberation in 1945 while her father Erich and brother Heinz died. After the war she moved to Britain, married Zvi Schloss and settled in London. Her mother later married Otto Frank. Schloss became honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust UK and devoted her life to Holocaust education and combating prejudice. She died in London at age 96.
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