Dominic Green Dominic Green

The Anne Frank story continues

Hannah Pick-Goslar, a survivor of the Holocaust and Anne’s friend in Amsterdam, movingly describes their snatched conversations in Belsen before Anne disappeared forever

Childhood friends in Amsterdam: Anne Frank (left) and Hannah Pick-Goslar. [Courtesy of Anne Frank Fonds, Basel] 
issue 01 July 2023

The first time a friend told me that Hitler had the right idea about the Jews I was six. Most of my classmates agreed, and quoted their parents in evidence – from which I conclude that anyone who suggests that they don’t understand how the Holocaust happened is either a fool or a liar.

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