For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
The close friend and champion of Anne Frank died on October 28th, aged 93
Late IN THE summer of 1942, Hannah Goslar’s mother began to think of making strawberry jam. Hannah, then 13, was sent round to the Franks’ house, two doors away in Amsterdam, to borrow the scales and perhaps to get some cast-off packets of pectin. Otto Frank was in the pectin-and-spices business, and Hannah and his daughter Anne were firm best friends.
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “From friendship to haunting”
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