"The United Kingdom's King Charles III said he was privileged and proud to have known Schloss, who co-founded the charitable trust to help young people challenge prejudice. 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, the king said."
"Born Eva Geiringer in Vienna in 1929, Schloss fled with her family to Amsterdam after Nazi Germany annexed Austria. She became friends with another Jewish girl of the same age, Anne Frank, whose diary would become one of the most famous chronicles of the Holocaust. Like the Franks, Eva's family spent two years in hiding to avoid capture after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. They were eventually betrayed, arrested and sent to the Auschwitz death camp."
Eva Schloss was born Eva Geiringer in Vienna in 1929 and fled with her family to Amsterdam after the Anschluss. She befriended Anne Frank and spent two years in hiding before being betrayed, arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Schloss and her mother, Fritzi, survived until liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; her father Erich and brother Heinz died in Auschwitz. After the war she moved to the UK, married Zvi Schloss and settled in London. She co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK, served as its honorary president, dedicated her life to Holocaust education and challenging prejudice, and died in London aged 96.
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