Anne Frank childhood friend dies
Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Jewish diarist Anne Frank’s best friends, has died at the age of 93.
The Anne Frank Foundation yesterday paid tribute to Ms PickGoslar, who is mentioned in Anne’s famous diary about life in hiding from the Netherlands’ Nazi occupiers, for helping to keep her memory alive with stories about their youth.
Pick-Goslar grew up with Anne in Amsterdam after their families moved there from Germany as the Nazis rose to power.
Pick-Goslar recalled attending her friend’s 13th birthday party and seeing a red-and-white chequered diary that Anne’s parents gave their daughter as a gift.
They were separated as Anne’s family went into hiding in 1942 but met again briefly in February 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, shortly before Anne died there of typhus.
Pick-Goslar emigrated in 1947 to what is now Israel, became a nurse, married and had three children.