Hannah Goslar, one of Anne Frank's best friends, passed away in Jerusalem at the age of 93. 

The announcement was made by the Foundation born in memory of the author of the homonymous Diary. 

Hanneli, as she was called by her friend, met Anne Frank from a very young age, both living on the same street and attending the same schools.

They lost contact in 1942 when the Frank family hid in the attic of their father Otto's company to escape the Nazi fury while the Goslars were arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and deported. 

The two girls met in February 1945 in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, shortly before Anna's death, which occurred just fifteen.

“We lived close together and our first meeting took place in 1934. We met in a grocery store.

My mother and Anna's mother, I remember, started speaking German because neither of them knew Dutch, ”Gosler recalled over the years.

"Anna was with her. The next day, when I saw her in kindergarten, I recognized her from the back and I ran to hug her. Since then, we became friends. At school, years later, Anna wrote in a diary between lessons. , which she protected from prying eyes. Everyone asked her what she wrote but the answer was the same for everyone: “it's none of your business!” She was a child like any other, normal. When I saw her again in the concentration camp I had mixed feelings. happy to see you again but sad at the same time.

Only after the war ended, did I learn of Anna's death.

I was still in hospital when I received a visit from Otto Frank.

It was he who told me that both of his daughters had not survived. "     

At the end of the war, in 1947, Anna Gosler, the only survivor together with her sister Gabi, emigrated to Jerusalem, where she took up the profession of nurse and married the doctor Walter Pinchass Pick.

The couple had three children, 11 grandchildren and more than 31 great-grandchildren: "This is my answer to Hitler," said Hannah Goslar.