Anne Frank’s best friend: Holocaust survivor Pick-Goslar died

Status: 10/29/2022 1:16 p.m

She became world famous as “Hanneli” in the diary of her best friend Anne Frank. The Anne Frank Foundation has now announced the death of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar. She was 93 years old.

Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar – one of Anne Frank’s best friends – has died at the age of 93. This shared the Anne Frank Foundation at its headquarters in Amsterdam With. According to the foundation, Pick-Goslar died on Friday at her home in Jerusalem.

The foundation recognized Pick-Goslar’s commitment. “Everyone should know what happened to her and her friend Anne from the moment Anne’s diary ends, horrific as that story is,” the foundation writes on its website.

Up until old age, Pick-Goslar kept reporting on her experiences with the persecution of the Jews and her friendship with girls. She called it her duty, “because I survived and Anne didn’t.”

Girls have known each other since kindergarten

The two Jewish girls Anne and Hannah knew each other from kindergarten and attended the same schools in Dutch exile. They last saw each other on German soil in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 – shortly before Anne Frank’s death.

Anne Frank’s diary is one of the best-known documents from the Nazi dictatorship in the world. In her diary from hiding from the German National Socialists in Amsterdam, Anne Frank also wrote about Hannah – “Hanneli”, as she called her.

There are also books and films about the friendship between the two Jewish girls. The Dutch film “My Best Friend Anne Frank” was released just last year.

Pick-Goslar emigrated to Israel

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 a secret annexe in 1942 – were finally discovered and deported in 1944. 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 and became a nurse there. She married Walter Pick. The couple had three children, eleven grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren. She said about it: “This is my answer to Hitler”.

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