Ruth Goslar born Ruth Judith Klee, was the mother of Hanneli Goslar

Hanneli Goslar

Hannah 'Hanneli' Elisabeth Goslar is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Both Hannah and Anne attended the Sixth Public Montessori School in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum....

, who was a friend of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

. She was a teacher

Teacher

A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

. Ruth died in 1942 during childbirth.

Biography

Ruth was born in Germany to Jewish parents, Alfred and Therese Klee. She married Hans Goslar in the mid-1920s. The couple strictly observed religion. She gave birth to a daughter, Hanneli, in November 28, 1928. In 1933, after :Adolf Hitler came to power, Ruth and her family escaped to :Amsterdam. There they became close friends to the Franks. Ruth gave birth to another daughter, Gabi, in 1940.

Death

Ruth was expecting another baby, in 1942. She died while giving birth to that baby and the baby died too.

Her daughters, Hanneli and her younger sister, Gabi Goslar, survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle...

, and Hanneli today lives in Israel with Gabi.

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