Eva Castle

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Eva Schloss (right) with her mother Elfriede (1989)

Eva Schloss (born May 11, 1929 in Vienna ; born Eva Geiringer ) is Anne Frank's stepsister and a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Shortly after Austria was annexed to Germany in 1938, the family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands. In May 1944 the Jewish family was betrayed, subsequently captured by the National Socialists and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Eva Schloss' father and brother did not survive the camp; she and her mother were liberated by Soviet troops in 1945. Then both returned to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where Eva continued her school education and then studied art history at the University of Amsterdam . Her mother married Otto Frank , the father of Anne Frank , in 1953 . She had no contact with Anne Frank herself. In Eva Schloss' autobiographies Evas Geschichte and Amsterdam May 11, 1944. The end of my childhood is presented differently. It says that the Frank and Geiringer families lived in Amsterdam on the block across the street on the same floor. Eva Schloss has been to Frank's apartment from time to time and describes, also in an interview with Spiegel online , the usual contacts with the girl next door, who is almost the same age.

Eva Schloss reports on her experiences in the Holocaust in educational institutions. Northumbria University awarded Eva Schloss an honorary doctorate in 2001 for her commitment . Eva Schloss was a co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust in Great Britain.

Her first autobiography, Eva’s Story , was published in 1989. In 1995, Dear Anne Frank, her book about the stepsister was published. A second book about her time in and after Auschwitz was published in February 2014 under the title After Auschwitz . James Still described her experiences as a young persecuted Jew in the play And Then They Came for Me - Remembering the World of Anne Frank .

Eva Schloss has three daughters. Her husband, Zvi Schloss, died on July 3, 2016.

Works (in German)

  • Eva's story (with Evelyn Julia Kent). Heyne, Munich 1991; Brunnen, Giessen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7655-4250-3
  • Amsterdam May 11, 1944. The end of my childhood . Eckhaus, Weimar 2015

Movie

  • 2020: People & Powers : Anne Frank's Viennese stepsister. The girl who survived

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eva Schloss on the Anne Frank.org site
  2. ↑ Jacqueline van Maarsen : The inheritance. Memories of the childhood friend of Anne Frank , Frankfurt a. M. 2006, pp. 79-89
  3. ↑ Evas Geschichte , Gießen 2014, pp. 27–29 and pp. 251–252; Amsterdam May 11, 1944. The end of my childhood , Weimar 2015, pp. 57–58 and pp. 140–141.
  4. ↑ Holocaust survivor Eva Schlosser: "One day a little girl came up to me" Spiegel online from January 25, 2016. Accessed February 1, 2016
  5. ↑ Auschwitz survivor receives degree In: BBC of July 24, 2001
  6. ^ Eckhaus Verlag
  7. ↑ 75 years: Anne Frank's Viennese stepsister. In: ORF.at . April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiringer, Eva (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian survivor of persecution by the National Socialists, stepsister of Anne Frank
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria