Eva Schloss meeting actors telling her life story

EVA Schloss, the Holocaust survivor who spent a lifetime educating people to combat hatred and prejudice, has died aged 96.

While she lived for many years a little bit beyond our news patch in St John’s Wood, she was always an inspirational speaker when she appeared for talks in north London’s schools and elsewhere.

The Tribune’s late founding editor, Eric Gordon, travelled to New York with Ms Schloss and her friend Nic Careem to see the Anne Frank declaration signed by Kofi Annan at the United Nations building in New York in the 1990s.

Ms Schloss with dignitaries at the United Nations in New York

Ms Schloss, who survived Auschwitz with her mother but lost her father and brother to the Nazis, was Anne Frank’s stepsister.

Eric later wrote of Ms Schloss in his weekly column: “A woman who has probably done more as an individual to campaign against bigotry than any other I can think of.”

Eva, co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK, had said in 2024: “We must never forget the terrible consequences of treating people as “other”. We need to respect everybody’s races and religions.

“We need to live together with our differences. The only way to achieve this is through education, and the younger we start the better.”