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Anne Frank and Hanneli Goslar friends in kindergarten

As soon as Anne Frank and Hanneli Goslar met in kindergarten, they were best friends.

After the summer vacation of 1934, Hanneli Goslar came to the kindergarten on Niersstraat. She did not know anyone there. At the bell table, she met Anne, who had been at the school since April that year.[1] She had seen Anne once before in a shop. They embraced and struck up a friendship without words: "From that day on, we were friends, and through us, our parents became friends, too."[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie, A_Montessorischool_I_0001: leerlingenregister School No. 51, volgnrs. 190 en 308. 
  2. ^ AFS, Getuigenverhalen I: interview met H.E. Pick – Goslar door David de Jongh en Teresien da Silva, Jeruzalem, 6 mei 2009, tijdcode 15:47:39 – 15:49:35.