Elfriede Geiringer

Elfriede Geiringer (Fritzi; née Markovits; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was a Jewish survivor of World War II and the Holocaust.

[1] They were liberated in January 1945 by the Soviets, but Erich and Heinz Geiringer had perished in the forced march to Mauthausen that came just before the war ended.

They spent a large part of their time educating people about the importance of Anne Frank's diary and the horrors that the Jews experienced during the Holocaust.

[citation needed] After living long enough to see the birth of five of her great-grandchildren, Elfriede Geiringer died peacefully in her sleep on 2 October 1998 at her home in London.

[2] A memoir by her daughter Eva Schloss, concerning the family's life after the Holocaust, After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank, was published in 2013.