Not long after Hannah Pick-Goslar’s family relocated from Berlin to Amsterdam in 1933, her mother made a friend at the grocery store — a fellow Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who was accompanied by a dark-eyed girl around Pick-Goslar’s age.
“Anne had trouble whistling, so sometimes she’d just hum the tune,” according to Pick-Goslar’s best-selling memoir, “My Friend Anne Frank,” written with Dina Kraft and published on June 6, six days before what would have been the diarist’s 94th birthday.
The teenagers last saw each other from opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
“As she began to fade, I wrote of her life,” Kraft explains in an afterword to their book, which is based on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted in person and via Zoom.
Hannah being Hannah — the nurse and caregiver and concerned person that she was for her whole life — kept checking up on me, texting, ‘Are you OK?’”
Persons:
Hannah Pick, confidantes, “ Anne, “, Anne Frank, ”, Dina Kraft, Frank, she’d, Anne ”, ” Kraft, Kraft, Hannah, Hannah —, —
Locations:
Berlin, Amsterdam, Nazi Germany, Bergen, Belsen, Pick, Goslar, Switzerland, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem