Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank, died in Britain, the Anne Frank Trust announced. She was 96.
"It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our dear mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Eva Schloss," a statement from her family said. "Eva was a remarkable woman: an Auschwitz survivor, a devoted Holocaust educator, tireless in her work for remembrance, understanding and peace."
Born in Austria as Eva Geiringer, she came to known Anne as children when her family moved to Amsterdam. The Geiringer family moved from house to house in hiding before a Nazi sympathizer betrayed them to the Germans in 1944.
The young Eva, her brother, mother and father were sent to concentration camps. Eva and her mother survived Auschwitz, while her brother and father were killed.
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