her mother were displaced across Eastern Europe before eventually learning the war had ended. Schloss was 16. Returning to Amsterdam later that year, they learned that Schloss’s father had died on a death march and that her brother Heinz had perished in Mauthausen just days before liberation.
A conversation with Otto Frank about the publication of Anne’s diary later helped Schloss recover a memory of her brother telling her he had hidden his artwork and poetry before deportation. Schloss recovered dozens of paintings and hundreds of poems, which she later donated to the Resistance Museum in Amsterdam.
Creating a Safer World
Schloss completed her education in Amsterdam and later moved to London, where she married Zvi Schloss and raised three daughters. For many years, she focused on family and work before embracing her role as a public educator.
From the mid-1980s onward, Schloss became one of the most respected survivor-educators in the world, speaking at schools, museums, and public forums across continents. “I realized the world has to know what happened,” she once said. “We have to create a better and safer world.”
Eva Schloss is survived by her daughters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Her legacy — preserved through testimony, education, and the countless lives she touched — will continue to shape how future generations understand the past and their responsibility to one another.
May her memory be a blessing.
The testimony of Eva Schloss is available on YouTube and through our Archive.
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