The family had previously fled Nazi-occupied Vienna to what they thought was the relative safety of the Dutch capital. They lived in a square called the Merwedeplein, where Eva met Anne Frank, recently arrived from Frankfurt. “She was a great chatterbox and loved to tell stories,” she said. Anne was a month younger than Eva, but “was much more mature and grown-up than me”. They enjoyed skipping, playing marbles and hopscotch, and swapping pictures of the film star Deanna Durbin, while Mrs Frank made lemonade for them. “Anne was very lively but I was more shy,” she added. “I was...
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