Hanneli Goslar
Hannah 'Hanneli' Elisabeth Goslar (born 12 November 1928) is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Both Hannah and Anne attended the Sixth Public Montessori School (now the Anne Frank School) in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum.
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[edit] Early life
Hannah Elizabeth Goslar was born in Berlin, Germany on 12 November 1928, the eldest child of Hans Goslar and Ruth Judith Klee.[1] Her father was deputy minister for domestic affairs in Germany until 1933 [2] and her mother was a teacher. Both of her parents were observant Jews. Her mother died giving birth to the third child. The baby also died. Her father and maternal grandparents all died of a sickness before the liberation. In 1933, after the election of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to the Reichstag and Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, Hans Goslar was forced to resign his governmental job.[3] After an abortive attempt to move to England, where Hans Goslar could not find work that would allow him to stay home on the Sabbath, the Goslars moved to Amsterdam, Holland. Hannah attended the Sixth Public Montessori school in Amsterdam, where she became friends with Anne Frank. Anne and Hannah were also close friends with Susanne ''Sanne'' Ledermann, who lived in the same area but attended a different school, and later with Ilse Wagner and Jacqueline van Maarsen.[4]
[edit] Arrest and concentration camp life
In 1943, Hannah, her father, her grandparents, along with Hannah's little sister Gabi, were arrested and sent to Westerbork, a transit camp, and then eventually to the exchange camp of Bergen-Belsen. Hannah was in a privileged section of the camp because her family had Palestine passports with them. Sometime between January-February 1945, Hannah was briefly reunited with Anne Frank, who was a less privileged prisoner imprisoned at the other side of the camp. Hannah passed Anne a package with some bread and socks in it. Hannah and Gabi were the only members of their family to survive the war, and in 1947, they emigrated to Jerusalem, Israel.
[edit] Present life
Hannah married Dr Walter Pinchas, and they have three children. Hannah still lives in Jerusalem and she has ten grandchildren.
Hannah has appeared in several documentaries related to Anne Frank, including in the 1988 documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank and the 1995 documentary Anne Frank Remembered.
[edit] See also
- People associated with Anne Frank
- Ruth Judith Klee, the mother of Hanneli Goslar
[edit] References
- ^ Alison Leslie Gold, Hannah Goslar Remembers: A Childhood Friend of Anne Frank,p. 80
- ^ H. Pick-Goslar in W. Lindwer, The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, p. 12
- ^ Lindwer, p. 12
- ^ Frank, Anne, The Diary of a Young Girl(definitive edition 1995), p.2
