1. Eva Schloss is an Austrian-English Holocaust survivor, memoirist and stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank.
12 Facts About Eva Schloss
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Eva Schloss Geiringer was born in Vienna to a Jewish family.
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Eva Schloss 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.
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In May 1944, Eva 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.
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Eva Schloss continued her schooling and then studied art history at the University of Amsterdam.
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Eva Schloss then traveled to England to study photography for a year.
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In June 2021, Eva 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.
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Eva Schloss did not talk about her experiences in the concentration camp until after Otto's death in 1980.
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Eva Schloss began to speak of her family's experiences during the Holocaust at educational institutions.
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Eva 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.
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Eva Schloss was awarded an honorary doctorate by Northumbria University in 2001.
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Eva Schloss was honoured with an MBE in the 2013 New Year's Honours and the Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria on the occasion of her taking Austrian citizenship in 2021.