Hannah Goslar, Anne Frank's childhood best friend, who tried to save her in the concentration camp, dies

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They met in kindergarten and only the war could separate them.

They were

and

.

This Friday,

's best friend passed away at the age of 93.

"To our great sadness,

Foundation announced

.

Hannah-Elizabeth (Elisheva) Goslar Pick

was born in Berlin in 1928. When the Nazis came to power, Hannah and her family fled to England and a year later to

.

was just over 6 years old.

And that's where she meets her childhood friend,

.

History

History.

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The unpublished letters of Anne Frank: "The Jewish class has been canceled for the moment"

Although in her diary

recounted that she met

in a department store when their mothers greeted each other, what is certain, according to Hannah herself, is that their friendship was forged in the kindergarten of the Sixth María Montessori Public School and then at the Jewish Lyceum.

Hannah remembered the first day she saw Anne Frank ringing bells at school and how the two hugged each other, forging a friendship that only the war could break.

From there they became friends, not only them but also their families.

The two young women lost sight of each other in 1942 when the Frank family took refuge in a clandestine apartment to escape the Nazis.

Two years later they met again in the

concentration camp .

In June 1943,

and her family were arrested by the Gestapo and eventually deported to

in 1944. She met

there again , in February 1945, just before her death.

While there, one day she learned from a friend of hers from the concentration camp that

was also a prisoner.

She told him where there were Dutch prisoners, and that's how she managed to locate where her friend was.

was in another sector of the field which was separated by bags filled with straw and barbed wire.

One night,

, as they affectionately called her, risking her life, approached the place where

was hospitalized and they were able to talk a little.

Ana told him about the terrible conditions in which they lived, without food, with illnesses, shaved...

They arranged to meet again and that's how

found a way to bring him some food and clothes to make him feel better.

They saw each other like 3 or 4 more times and then

.

Soon after, Anne Frank dies of typhus and Hannah never hears from her again.

Hannah Goslar

survives the war with her sister Gabi, while the rest of her family is killed or sick.

She emigrates to Jerusalem, where she marries

.

The couple has three children, 11 grandchildren and more than 20 great-grandchildren.

"

meant a lot to the

, we could always count on her," the foundation said.

"The last time Hannah visited

was in October 2012," for an exhibition of photos of Hannah and Anne together.

Hannah Goslar

recounted her memories with her friend in a book,

, published in English in 1997 and written by Holocaust scholar Alison Leslie Gold.

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