27/04/2026
Norwich, GB 6 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

EVA SCHLOSS, aged 96

Anne Frank’s posthumous stepsister, she hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam but was betrayed. She then survived Auschwitz and spread the word about the Holocaust.

SJOUKJE DIJKSTRA, aged 82

The greatest figure skater of her time, she won the Netherlands first gold at the Winter Olympics before becoming a world-famous performer in the circus.

ADELAIDE JOSEPH, aged 89

With her husband she fought apartheid in her native South Africa before being forced into exile. A friend of the Mandelas she continued the struggle in London.