Eva Schloss, co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK, spent her life championing Holocaust education and promoting “kindness, courage and understanding.”
King Charles has paid tribute to Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, who was Anne Frank’s step-sister. The King praised Eva’s lifelong commitment to “promoting kindness, courage and understanding” following her death aged 96.
Queen Camilla is Patron of the Anne Frank Trust, which Schloss co-founded and served as Honorary President. In a message shared on X, the King said he and the Queen were “greatly saddened” by her passing.
He wrote: “The horrors that she endured as a young woman are impossible to comprehend and yet she devoted the rest of her life to overcoming hatred and prejudice, promoting kindness, courage, understanding and resilience through her tireless work for the Anne Frank Trust U.K. and for Holocaust education across the world.
“We are both privileged and proud to have known her and we admired her deeply. May her memory be a blessing to all.”
Born Eva Geiringer in Vienna in 1929, Schloss was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her parents and brother. She and her mother were liberated by Soviet troops in 1945 and later returned to Amsterdam, but her father and brother did not survive the Nazi death camp.
Her mother went on to marry Otto Frank, making Schloss the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank, reports the Mirror.
After the war, Eva moved to London, married Zvi Schloss, and dedicated her life to Holocaust education — sharing her experiences with audiences around the world to ensure the atrocities were never forgotten.
She and the King once shared a light-hearted moment dancing together during a royal visit to a Jewish community centre.
In 1990, she co-founded the Anne Frank Trust UK to help young people challenge prejudice through the lessons of Anne Frank’s story. In 2024, the charity worked with more than 132,000 young people, training nearly 5,300 as peer educators and guiding over 45,000 through its peer programme.
