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…