Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96

"Britain'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."

"Schloss and her mother Fritzi survived until the camp was liberated by Soviet troops in 1945. Her father Erich and brother Heinz died in Auschwitz. After the war, Eva moved to Britain, married German Jewish refugee Zvi Schloss and settled in London. In 1953, her mother married Frank's father, Otto, the only member of his immediate family to survive. Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war."

Eva Schloss was born Eva Geiringer in Vienna in 1929 and fled with her family to Amsterdam after Nazi Germany annexed Austria. She befriended Anne Frank and spent two years in hiding with her family before being betrayed, arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Schloss and her mother Fritzi survived until liberation in 1945, while her father Erich and brother Heinz died in Auschwitz. After the war she moved to Britain, married Zvi Schloss, and settled in London. She co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK, served as its honorary president, and dedicated her life to Holocaust education and challenging prejudice. She died in London at age 96.

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