Elfriede Geiringer

Elfriede Geiringer Frank (; 13 February 1905 – 2 October 1998) was the second wife of Otto Frank, who was the father of Anne and Margot Frank. She was a survivor of World War II and the Holocaust.

Biography

Early life Elfriede Markovits was born in Vienna in 1905. She married Erich Geiringer and the couple had two children: son Heinz, born in 1926; and daughter Eva, born in 1929. The family fled first to Belgium and then to the Netherlands in 1938, where they settled down as neighbours to the Frank family.

A memoir by her daughter Eva Schloss, concerning the family's life after the Holocaust, After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank, was published in 2013.