Hanneli Goslar Obituary

Hannah Goslar was a Holocaust survivor and German-born Israeli nurse best known for her close friendship with writer Anne Frank.

Hannah was born on November 12, 1928, in Tiergarten, Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany.

Hannah Goslar’s family was deported to Westerbroek, and later to Bergen-Belsen, where her father died.

Goslar was one of the passengers on the “lost train” that left Bergen-Belsen for Theresienstadt but never arrived – and at the end of the war, she was released from the Trevitz camp with her younger sister.

Following a period of recuperation in Switzerland, she immigrated to Israel in 1947 and enrolled in nursing studies at the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem.

Hannah Goslar dedicated her life to fighting antisemitism and telling the story of her and her friend Frank’s lives.

Hannah first appeared in Willy Lindwer’s 1988 Emmy Award-winning documentary The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank, followed by the 1995 documentary Anne Frank Remembered and the 2008 documentary Classmates of Anne Frank.

Hannah Goslar died on Friday, October 28, 2022, at the age of 93, according to the Anne Frank Foundation.