Anne Frank’s stepsister who survived Auschwitz has compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
Eva Schloss, now aged 86, met Anne in Amsterdam where both their families took refuge after fleeing from Nazi Germany. After the war, Eva’s mother Fritzi married Anne’s father Otto Frank.
Now, in an interview to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Schloss has reflected on the traumatic period – and she sees little difference between Hitler’s rhetoric and that of aspiring president Donald Trump.
‘If Donald Trump become[s] the next president of the US it would be a complete disaster. I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism,’ Schloss told Newsweek.
Anne Frank was 15 when she died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.
Schloss, the co-founder of Anne Frank Trust UK, was detained at the same time and sent to Auschwitz. She survived and now lives in London.
She also takes aim at America for resisting calls to take more refugees from Syria – comparing the migrant crisis to her own experience during the Holocaust.
Trump has been vocal about his beliefs that America should place a ban on Muslims entering the country, and vows he would implement such a ban if he were to be elected president.