Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar was a German-born Israeli nurse and Holocaust survivor best known for her close friendship with writer Anne Frank.
16 Facts About Hannah Pick-Goslar
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Hannah Pick-Goslar Elisabeth Goslar was born in Berlin-Tiergarten, on 12 November 1928, the eldest child of Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Klee.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar's father was deputy minister for domestic affairs, and the ministry's chief of public relations in Germany until 1933, and her mother was a teacher.
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Anne mentioned that Hannah Pick-Goslar was a shy girl who was usually reserved and quiet, but would speak her thoughts too.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar's sister Rachel Gabriela Ida was born in Amsterdam on 25 October 1940.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar's mother died in 1942 giving birth to her third child; the baby died.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar was in a privileged section of the camp because her family had Mandatory Palestine papers and Paraguayan passports with them.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar threw a package with some food over the barbed wire fence for Anne, but another prisoner caught it and did not give it to Anne.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar came to the fence one more time a few days later with a package with some bread and socks in it over a hay-filled barbed wire fence dividing the two sections.
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The meeting at which Anne eventually caught the package was the last time Hannah Pick-Goslar ever saw her.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar had eleven grandchildren and more than 31 great-grandchildren.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar returned to places in Germany, with her sister, and told students about her memories of the Holocaust.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar supported the German initiative Zeichen gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus, planting a tree in memory of Anne and the Anne Frank tree in Uedelhoven in 2019.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar died at home in Jerusalem, Israel on 28 October 2022, at age 93.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar was featured in several documentaries related to Anne Frank, first in the 1988 Emmy Award winning documentary by Willy Lindwer, Laatste Zeven Maanden van Anne Frank.
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Hannah Pick-Goslar helped with information for the 1995 documentary Anne Frank Remembered and the 2008 documentary Classmates of Anne Frank.