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  • Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar – Anne Frank’s best friend – has died at the age of 93.
  • This is announced by the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam.
  • The two Jewish girls knew each other from kindergarten and attended the same schools in Dutch exile.

Legend:

Hannah Pick-Goslar, then 69 years old, during an interview in her home in Jerusalem in 1998.

Keystone/AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File

They last saw each other again in 1945 on German soil in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp – shortly before Anne Frank’s death. Her diary is one of the best-known documents from the Nazi dictatorship in the world.

… because I survived and Anne didn’t.

According to the foundation, Pick-Goslar died on Friday at her home in Jerusalem. She kept reporting about her experiences with the persecution of the Jews and her friendship with girls until she was very old. She called it her duty, “because I survived and Anne didn’t.” In her diary from hiding from the German National Socialists in Amsterdam, Anne Frank also wrote about Hannah – about “Hanneli”, as she called her.

The girls met in Amsterdam


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Hannah Pick-Goslar was born in Berlin in 1928. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, her family emigrated first to London and then to Amsterdam, where Hannah met Anne.

Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in 1942, were discovered in 1944 and deported. Only the father Otto Frank survived. Hannah was deported with her family in 1943 and sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1944. After the liberation, she emigrated to what is now Israel in 1947.

The Anne Frank Foundation honored Pick-Goslar’s commitment. “Everyone should know what happened to her and her friend Anne from the moment Anne’s diary breaks off, terrible as this story is,” the foundation writes on its website.


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