Hannah Goslar (93), Anne Frank’s best friend, has died
Hannah Elisabeth Pick-Goslar, Anne Frank’s best friend, passed away today. She was 93 years old.
The Jew Goslar was born in Germany, but emigrated to Amsterdam with the rest of the family after the National Socialists took power in 1933. It was here that Goslar met Anne Frank. They went to school together. Frank calls Goslar “Hanneli” in her diary.
When the Frank family had to go into hiding in 1942, the two girls lost contact with each other. A year later, Goslar was arrested by the Gestapo, the German secret police, together with her father, younger sister and grandparents and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. There she met Anne Frank in 1945, shortly before Anne’s death. In the end, Goslar and her sister were the only ones in their family to survive the war.
In 1947 Goslar went to what was then Palestine and became a nurse. There she had two children with her husband Walter Pick.
Films to Goslar
The film My best friend Anne Frank based on the life of Goslar. Last year the film won the Golden Film Award at the Dutch Film Festival. Goslar was featured in the documentary The last seven months by Anne Frank. This won an International Emmy Award.
The Anne Frank House writes in a memoriam on its website that Goslar meant a lot to the Anne Frank House: “We could always call her”. Hannah Goslar was last at the Anne Frank House in October 2012.
Goslar is buried in Jerusalem, the city where she lived.
Source: NOS
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