Holocaust Survivor & Step-sister of Anne Frank, Eva Schloss
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
The Oxford University Chabad Society was honoured to host on 21 January 2009 a lecture by Eva Schloss, who is a survivor of Auschwitz and a stepsister of Anne Frank. Eva Schloss was born in Vienna in 1929. She and her family emigrated to Belgium, and then to Holland in 1938, following Hitler’s annexation of Austria. After the Germans invaded Holland in 1942, the family went into hiding. In May 1944, they were betrayed, captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Only Eva and her mother survived; her father and brother did not. She and her mother were liberated by the Russian army in January 1945, and evacuated ea… Read More »