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. ==References==