Stepsister Anne Frank: Donald Trump is just second Hitler

In an essay on the occasion of the International Holocaust memorial takes the British not mince words. ,, I think Trump is acting as another Hitler to incite racism. "

Trump called inter alia for a temporary ban on the arrival of Muslim immigrants to the United States. ,, If Donald Trump will be the next president would be a complete disaster, "Schloss said at Newsweek. ,, He provoked racism, just as Hitler did."

The UK now lives in London. She also criticizes the Western European governments because of the way they deal with the refugee crisis. She compares it to "what we went through in Nazi-controlled Europe. ,, I remember how angry the world was when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, "said the elderly lady. ,, And now everyone builds up walls to keep people out. It's absurd."

 In vain
Schloss also tells how Otto Frank tried in vain to get a US visa in 1940. ,, He tried everything to save his family from the Holocaust. He begged an administrative assistant who worked for the then President Roosevelt, to help him. But his request was denied.America did not want more refugees let in. "

According to the UK we have learned nothing. ,, I am very angry that today again so many countries close the borders. Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees. "

Political opponents and critics in America abroad compared the American real estate magnate earlier with the Nazi leader. According to CNN wanted the campaign of Donald Trump Wednesday not respond to the allegations.

From neighbor to stepsister
Eva is 9 years old, when her parents after Kristallnacht (1938) for the Nazis flee from Vienna. Via Belgium enters the family in Amsterdam. There met Eva Anne Frank, neighbor and friend.

On May 13 transported the family with hundreds of other Jews by train to Westerbork. Eva and her mother survived the horrors. Father and son Erich Heinz survival camp not. Just before the end of the war, they die of exhaustion and disease.

After their return to the Netherlands, Eva moved to England. There she married Zvi Schloss in 1952. Her mother met Otto Frank, whom she knows from the period Merwedeplein and married him in 1953.

Source: AD.nl/ © Reuters