Anne Frank’s school friend Hannah Pick-Goslar has died, the survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp died on Friday at the age of 93. Goslar’s family, born in 1928, fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in Amsterdam. There she met. Contact broke off when the Frank family went into hiding from the Nazis in 1942.
In 1943 the Goslar family was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Bergen-Belsen the following year. There she met Frank again shortly before her death in February 1945.
Eleven grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren as “Answer to Hitler”
Hannah Goslar and her sister Gabi were the only survivors in their family. Goslar later moved to Jerusalem, where she married and had three children with her husband Walter Pick. She had eleven grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. “That’s my answer to Hitler,” Pick-Goslar said, according to the Anne Frank House.
“Hannah, or Hanneli, as Anne called her in her diary,” was one of Frank’s best friends, the foundation explains on its website. “Hannah shared her memories of their friendship and the Holocaust into old age,” it reads. “She felt that everyone should know what happened to her and her friend Anne after the last diary entry. No matter how terrible the story is.”
Anne Frank became known for her diary entries, which she wrote down in her family’s later hiding place in Amsterdam. The family lived there until they were betrayed in August 1944. Anne Frank died in 1945 at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her later found diary was published and became one of the most widely read books in the world.
Source: Krone
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