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{{short description|Austrian Holocaust survivor memoirist}}
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'''Eva Geiringer Schloss, [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]'''<ref name="af.org"/> (born 11 May 1929) is an Austrian-English [[The Holocaust|holocaust]] survivor memoirist and stepdaughter of [[Otto Frank]], the father of [[Margot Frank|Margot]] and diarist [[Anne Frank]].<ref name="mbe"/> Schloss speaks widely of her family's experiences during the Holocaust and is a participant in the [[USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education|USC Shoah Foundation's]] Visual History Archive project to record video answers to be used in educational tools.
'''Eva Schloss''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}}<ref name="mbe">{{cite news|url=http://www.annefrank.org/en/News/News/2012/January/Eva-Schloss-Otto-Franks-stepdaughter-awarded-MBE-in-New-Years-Honours/|title=Eva Schloss, Otto Frank's stepdaughter, awarded MBE in New Year's Honours|date=3 January 2013|access-date=9 November 2013|publisher=Anne Frank Foundation}}</ref> (née '''Geiringer'''; born 11 May 1929) is an Austrian-English [[Holocaust survivor]], memoirist and stepdaughter of [[Otto Frank]], the father of [[Margot Frank|Margot]] and diarist [[Anne Frank]].<ref name="mbe"/> Schloss speaks widely of her family's experiences during [[the Holocaust]] and is a participant in the [[USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education|USC Shoah Foundation's]] Visual History Archive project to record video answers to be used in educational tools.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sfi.usc.edu/survivor/eva-schloss | title=Eva Schloss }}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Eva Geiringer was born in [[Vienna]] to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family. Shortly after the [[Anschluss|annexation of Austria by Germany]] in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands.<ref name="Geifman"/> She lived in the same apartment block in [[Amsterdam]] as [[Anne Frank]], and the girls, only a month apart in age, were sometimes playmates from ages 11 to 13. In 1942, both girls went into hiding to avoid the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] effort to capture the Jews of Amsterdam.<ref name="Geifman"/> In May 1944, Schloss's family was captured by the Nazis after being betrayed by a [[double agent]] in the [[Dutch underground]], and transported to the [[Auschwitz-Birkenau|Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps]].<ref name="Geifman"/> Her father and brother did not survive the ordeal, but she and her mother were barely alive when they were freed in 1945 by Soviet troops.<ref name="Geifman"/>
Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Her older brother, Heinz, was born in 1926. Shortly after the [[Anschluss|annexation of Austria by Germany]] in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands.<ref name="Geifman"/> She lived in the same apartment block in Amsterdam as [[Anne Frank]], and the girls, only a month apart in age, were sometimes playmates from ages 11 to 13. In 1942, both girls went into hiding to avoid the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] effort to capture the Jews of Amsterdam.<ref name="Geifman"/> In May 1944, Schloss's family was captured by the Nazis after being betrayed by a [[double agent]] in the [[Dutch underground]], and transported to the [[Auschwitz-Birkenau|Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps]].<ref name="Geifman"/> Her father and brother did not survive the ordeal, but she and her mother were barely alive when they were freed in 1945 by Soviet troops.<ref name="Geifman"/>


They returned to Amsterdam, and during this time, Schloss and her mother renewed their friendship with [[Otto Frank]], who was at that time contending with the loss of his wife and children, and the discovery of his daughter Anne's diary. In November 1953, Schloss's mother [[Elfriede Geiringer|Elfriede]] (1905–1998) married Otto Frank.<ref name="Geifman"/>
They returned to Amsterdam, and during that time, Schloss and her mother renewed their friendship with [[Otto Frank]], who was at that time contending with the loss of his wife and children, and the discovery of his daughter Anne's diary. In November 1953, Schloss's mother [[Elfriede Geiringer|Elfriede]] (1905–1998) married Otto Frank.<ref name="Geifman"/>


== Post-war life ==
== Post-war life ==
Eva continued her schooling and then studied [[art history]] at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. She then traveled to England to study [[photography]] for a year. While there, she met and married Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany whose father was imprisoned at [[Dachau concentration camp]], and who had been living in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]].<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/><ref>[http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn79396 Zvi and Eva Schloss papers]</ref> The couple subsequently settled in England.
Schloss continued her schooling and then studied art history at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. She then traveled to England to study photography for a year. While there, she met and married Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany whose father was imprisoned at [[Dachau concentration camp]], and who had been living in [[Mandatory Palestine]].<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/><ref>[http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn79396 Zvi and Eva Schloss papers]</ref> The couple subsequently settled in England and took British citizenship.<ref name=Austria>{{cite news |first=Sam |last=Francis |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57518071 |title=Eva Schloss: 'Why I took Austrian citizenship aged 92' |publisher=BBC News |date=22 June 2021 |access-date=22 June 2021 }}</ref>


Schloss has three daughters and lives in London.<ref name="G 2013/apr/06">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/06/eva-schloss-anne-frank-stepsister |title=I've been haunted by Anne Frank's memory for so long |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Nick |last=Duerden|date= 6 April 2013}}</ref> Her husband Zvi Schloss died on 3 July 2016.
Schloss has three daughters and lives in London.<ref name="G 2013/apr/06">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/06/eva-schloss-anne-frank-stepsister |title=I've been haunted by Anne Frank's memory for so long |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Nick |last=Duerden|date= 6 April 2013}}</ref> Her husband died in 2016.<ref name=Austria/>


In June 2021, Schloss became a [[Dual citizenship|dual citizen]] of the United Kingdom and Austria, taking up Austrian citizenship again as a gesture of reconciliation with her native country.<ref name=Austria/>
==Outreach and recognition==

==Outreach==
[[File:Elfriede Geiringer en Eva Schloss (1989).jpg|thumb|Schloss with her mother in 1989|left]]
[[File:Elfriede Geiringer en Eva Schloss (1989).jpg|thumb|Schloss with her mother in 1989|left]]
Schloss did not talk about her experiences in the concentration camp until after Otto's death in 1980. Having experienced her stepfather's emotional involvement with Anne and the preservation of her memory, she felt compelled to take on the responsibility of keeping Anne Frank's name alive.<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/> Schloss began to speak of her family's experiences during the [[Holocaust]] at educational institutions.<ref name="af.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.annefrank.org.uk/bbcdrama/interviews-information/eva-schloss|title=Eva Schloss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311132546/http://www.annefrank.org.uk/bbcdrama/interviews-information/eva-schloss|archive-date=11 March 2011|publisher=Anne Frank Trust UK}}</ref><ref name="Geifman">{{cite web|url=http://www.augustana.edu/x8973.xml|title=Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss to present Geifman Lecture in Holocaust Studies|publisher=Augustana College|date=2008-05-05|accessdate=2009-08-09|last=Beattie|first=Kamy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111130546/http://www.augustana.edu/x8973.xml|archive-date=11 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> For her dedication to this work, [[Northumbria University]] in England awarded Schloss an [[honorary doctorate]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1454237.stm |title=Auschwitz survivor receives degree|work=[[BBC News]]|date=24 July 2001}}</ref>
Schloss did not talk about her experiences in the concentration camp until after Otto's death in 1980. Having experienced her stepfather's emotional involvement with Anne and the preservation of her memory, she felt compelled to take on the responsibility of keeping Anne Frank's name alive.<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/> Schloss began to speak of her family's experiences during the [[Holocaust]] at educational institutions.<ref name="af.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.annefrank.org.uk/bbcdrama/interviews-information/eva-schloss|title=Eva Schloss|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311132546/http://www.annefrank.org.uk/bbcdrama/interviews-information/eva-schloss|archive-date=11 March 2011|publisher=Anne Frank Trust UK}}</ref><ref name="Geifman">{{cite web|url=http://www.augustana.edu/x8973.xml|title=Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss to present Geifman Lecture in Holocaust Studies|publisher=Augustana College|date=2008-05-05|access-date=2009-08-09|last=Beattie|first=Kamy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111130546/http://www.augustana.edu/x8973.xml|archive-date=11 January 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is a co-founder of The Anne Frank Trust UK,<ref name=Austria/><ref name="af.org"/> and playwright [[James Still (playwright)|James Still]] described her experiences as a persecuted young Jewish woman in the play ''[[And Then They Came for Me|And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank]]''.<!-- publishing info, ISBN needed --><ref name="Geifman"/>


In an effort to preserve the memories of Holocaust survivors for future generations, Schloss participated in the [[USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education|USC Shoah Foundation's]] Visual History Archive project, in which she recorded answers to numerous questions while holographic technology recorded the sessions. The hologram has now become a part of interactive displays at museums, where people can ask questions and receive recorded answers from the hologram.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-42458023/auschwitz-survivor-eva-schloss-recorded-in-virtual-reality |title=Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss recorded in virtual reality |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=22 December 2017 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=26 December 2017}}</ref>
Playwright [[James Still (playwright)|James Still]] described her experiences as a persecuted young Jewish woman in the play ''[[And Then They Came for Me|And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank]]''.<!-- publishing info, ISBN needed --><ref name="Geifman"/> Schloss is a co-founder of The Anne Frank Trust UK.


During a March 2019 [[book tour]] in [[Orange County, California]], Schloss met with a group of [[Newport Harbor High School]] students, parents and staff members. The prior week, students from Newport Harbor, [[Costa Mesa High School|Costa Mesa]] and [[Estancia High School|Estancia]] high schools gave [[Nazi salute]]s as they posed for photos at a party in front of cups arranged in the shape of a [[swastika]] while playing a variation of [[beer pong]]. Schloss talked to the students about her experience in the Holocaust when she was around their ages in an effort to educate them on the implications of the imagery they used.<ref name="LAT 2019-03-07">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-newport-nazi-party-anne-frank-20190307-story.html|title=O.C. teens involved in swastika party meet with Anne Frank's stepsister|last=Langhorne|first=Daniel|date=March 7, 2019|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/stepsister-of-anne-frank-speaks-to-teens-who-played-nazi-themed-beer-pong/|title=Stepsister of Anne Frank speaks to teens who played Nazi-themed beer pong|date=March 8, 2019|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref>
In an effort to preserve the memories of Holocaust survivors for future generations, Schloss participated in the [[USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education|USC Shoah Foundation's]] Visual History Archive project, in which she recorded answers to numerous questions while holographic technology recorded the sessions. The hologram has now become a part of interactive displays at museums, where people can ask questions and receive recorded answers from the hologram.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-42458023/auschwitz-survivor-eva-schloss-recorded-in-virtual-reality |title=Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss recorded in virtual reality |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=22 December 2017 |website=[[Bbc.com/news]] |access-date=26 December 2017}}</ref>


==Honours==
During a March 2019 [[book tour]] in [[Orange County, California]], Schloss met with a group of [[Newport Harbor High School]] students, parents and staff members. The prior week, students from Newport Harbor, [[Costa Mesa High School|Costa Mesa]] and [[Estancia High School|Estancia]] high schools gave [[Nazi salute]]s as they posed for photos at a party in front of cups arranged in the shape of a [[swastika]] while playing a variation of [[beer pong]]. Schloss talked to the students about her experience in the Holocaust when she was around their ages in an effort to educate them on the implications of the imagery they used.<ref name="LAT 2019-03-07">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-newport-nazi-party-anne-frank-20190307-story.html|title=O.C. teens involved in swastika party meet with Anne Frank’s stepsister|last=Langhorne|first=Daniel|date=March 7, 2019|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/stepsister-of-anne-frank-speaks-to-teens-who-played-nazi-themed-beer-pong/|title=Stepsister of Anne Frank speaks to teens who played Nazi-themed beer pong|date=March 8, 2019|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|language=en-US|via=[[Associated Press]]|access-date=10 March 2019}}</ref>
Schloss was awarded an [[honorary doctorate]] by [[Northumbria University]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1454237.stm |title=Auschwitz survivor receives degree|work=[[BBC News]]|date=24 July 2001}}</ref> She was honoured with an [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in the 2013 New Year's Honours<ref name="mbe"/> and the [[Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria|Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria]] on the occasion of her taking Austrian citizenship in 2021.<ref name=Austria/>


==Works==
==Works==
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* ''The Promise'' (2006)<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/>
* ''The Promise'' (2006)<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/>
* ''After Auschwitz: My Memories of Otto and Anne Frank'' (2013)<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/>
* ''After Auschwitz: My Memories of Otto and Anne Frank'' (2013)<ref name="G 2013/apr/06"/>
* ''Hell and Back''


==References==
==References==
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* [http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/anne_frank_a_stepsisters_story_20040611 Ori Golan: "Anne Frank: A Stepsister’s Story"], ''[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]''; accessed 26 September 2014.
* [http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/anne_frank_a_stepsisters_story_20040611 Ori Golan: "Anne Frank: A Stepsister’s Story"], ''[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]''; accessed 26 September 2014.
* [http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2009/06/12/riddell.eva.schloss.cnn?iref=videosearch "Remembering Anne Frank"], cnn.com; accessed 26 September 2014.
* [http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2009/06/12/riddell.eva.schloss.cnn?iref=videosearch "Remembering Anne Frank"], cnn.com; accessed 26 September 2014.

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Latest revision as of 16:33, 14 May 2024

Eva Schloss
MBE
Schloss in 2010
Born
Eva Geiringer

(1929-05-11) 11 May 1929 (age 95)
Vienna, Austria
CitizenshipBritish and Austrian
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Known forHolocaust survivor
Notable workEva's Story
The Promise
Spouse
Zvi Schloss
(m. 1952; died 2016)
Children3
Parent(s)Erich Geiringer (father)
Elfriede Geiringer (mother)
Otto Frank (stepfather)
RelativesMargot Frank (stepsister)
Anne Frank (stepsister)
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20191215140533/https://www.evaschloss.com/

Eva Schloss MBE[1] (née Geiringer; born 11 May 1929) is an Austrian-English Holocaust survivor, memoirist and stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank.[1] Schloss speaks widely of her family's experiences during the Holocaust and is a participant in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive project to record video answers to be used in educational tools.[2]

Early life

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Eva Geiringer was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Her older brother, Heinz, was born in 1926. Shortly after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, her family emigrated to Belgium and finally to the Netherlands.[3] She lived in the same apartment block in Amsterdam as Anne Frank, and the girls, only a month apart in age, were sometimes playmates from ages 11 to 13. In 1942, both girls went into hiding to avoid the Nazi effort to capture the Jews of Amsterdam.[3] In May 1944, Schloss's family was captured by the Nazis after being betrayed by a double agent in the Dutch underground, and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps.[3] Her father and brother did not survive the ordeal, but she and her mother were barely alive when they were freed in 1945 by Soviet troops.[3]

They returned to Amsterdam, and during that time, Schloss and her mother renewed their friendship with Otto Frank, who was at that time contending with the loss of his wife and children, and the discovery of his daughter Anne's diary. In November 1953, Schloss's mother Elfriede (1905–1998) married Otto Frank.[3]

Post-war life

[edit]

Schloss continued her schooling and then studied art history at the University of Amsterdam. She then traveled to England to study photography for a year. While there, she met and married Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany whose father was imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, and who had been living in Mandatory Palestine.[4][5] The couple subsequently settled in England and took British citizenship.[6]

Schloss has three daughters and lives in London.[4] Her husband died in 2016.[6]

In June 2021, Schloss became a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Austria, taking up Austrian citizenship again as a gesture of reconciliation with her native country.[6]

Outreach

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Schloss with her mother in 1989

Schloss did not talk about her experiences in the concentration camp until after Otto's death in 1980. Having experienced her stepfather's emotional involvement with Anne and the preservation of her memory, she felt compelled to take on the responsibility of keeping Anne Frank's name alive.[4] Schloss began to speak of her family's experiences during the Holocaust at educational institutions.[7][3] She is a co-founder of The Anne Frank Trust UK,[6][7] and playwright James Still described her experiences as a persecuted young Jewish woman in the play And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank.[3]

In an effort to preserve the memories of Holocaust survivors for future generations, Schloss participated in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive project, in which she recorded answers to numerous questions while holographic technology recorded the sessions. The hologram has now become a part of interactive displays at museums, where people can ask questions and receive recorded answers from the hologram.[8]

During a March 2019 book tour in Orange County, California, Schloss met with a group of Newport Harbor High School students, parents and staff members. The prior week, students from Newport Harbor, Costa Mesa and Estancia high schools gave Nazi salutes as they posed for photos at a party in front of cups arranged in the shape of a swastika while playing a variation of beer pong. Schloss talked to the students about her experience in the Holocaust when she was around their ages in an effort to educate them on the implications of the imagery they used.[9][10]

Honours

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Schloss was awarded an honorary doctorate by Northumbria University in 2001.[11] She was honoured with an MBE in the 2013 New Year's Honours[1] and the Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria on the occasion of her taking Austrian citizenship in 2021.[6]

Works

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  • Eva's Story (1988)[4]
  • The Promise (2006)[4]
  • After Auschwitz: My Memories of Otto and Anne Frank (2013)[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Eva Schloss, Otto Frank's stepdaughter, awarded MBE in New Year's Honours". Anne Frank Foundation. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Eva Schloss".
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Beattie, Kamy (5 May 2008). "Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss to present Geifman Lecture in Holocaust Studies". Augustana College. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Duerden, Nick (6 April 2013). "I've been haunted by Anne Frank's memory for so long". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Zvi and Eva Schloss papers
  6. ^ a b c d e Francis, Sam (22 June 2021). "Eva Schloss: 'Why I took Austrian citizenship aged 92'". BBC News. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Eva Schloss". Anne Frank Trust UK. Archived from the original on 11 March 2011.
  8. ^ "Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss recorded in virtual reality". BBC News. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  9. ^ Langhorne, Daniel (7 March 2019). "O.C. teens involved in swastika party meet with Anne Frank's stepsister". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Stepsister of Anne Frank speaks to teens who played Nazi-themed beer pong". The Times of Israel. Associated Press. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Auschwitz survivor receives degree". BBC News. 24 July 2001.
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