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Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister and Holocaust campaigner, dies at 96

Eva Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister and Holocaust campaigner, dies at 96

Eva Schloss, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager before becoming Anne Frank’s stepsister and a tireless campaigner against prejudice, has died at age 96, her trust announced Sunday.


“Eva was a remarkable woman: an Auschwitz survivor, a devoted Holocaust educator, tireless in her work for remembrance, understanding and peace,” the Anne Frank Trust UK, which Schloss co-founded, said Sunday.

Such was her impact that Britain’s King Charles III was among those who paid tribute to her.

“My wife and I are greatly saddened to hear of the death of Eva Schloss,” he said in a statement. “The horrors that she endured as a young woman are impossible to comprehend and yet she…

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