Survivor to Youth: Take Action Against Hate

More than 600 people came to Marlboro Middle School to hear Eva Geiringer Schloss share her personal story of survival and her message of the dangers of hatred and intolerance. The program was organized by Chabad of Western Monmouth County, NJ.

A Holocaust survivor, Schloss was a childhood friend and neighbor of Anne Frank’s in Amsterdam who later became the famed diarist’s posthumous step-sister.

When Germany invaded Holland, both families went into hiding and were eventually arrested and deported. Eva and her mother survived Auschwitz and returned to Amsterdam. Otto Frank, Anne’s father and the only member of his family to survive, visited the Geiringers and, in 1953, when Eva was 23, married her mother, Fritzi. Eva went to London, where she married Zvi Schloss; they raised three daughters and have five grandchildren. Since 1985, she has devoted herself to Holocaust education and the cause of global peace.

Schloss detailed the events surrounding her family’s hiding and the fear of betrayal by friends, the cruelty of the Nazis, and the losses, degradation, and humiliation she and so many others endured.

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