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Anne Frank's childhood friend shares their untold final words together

In her memoir 'My Friend Anne Frank', Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar wrote about the last meeting the two had at Bergen-Belsen

June 6, 2023 11:42
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A Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s childhood friend has revealed details of their final meeting together at Bergen-Belsen.

In her memoir, published on June 8 and which has been serialised in The Sun, Hannah Pick-Goslar shares that when Hitler rose to power, her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam, where they met the Franks in 1934.

The two girls went to school together and were neighbours, with the families sharing Jewish holidays and Shabbat dinners.

Hannah, who died just before her 94th birthday in October 2022, visited Anne's house on July 6, 1942, but was told that she was no longer there, believing her friend had moved to Switzerland to be with her grandmother. In truth, the family were hiding in a secret annex in a building that Otto Frank had once used for business.