By Gregory Simmons / Skaneateles Journal
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:37 AM EST

When Skaneateles resident Lia Bates was a little girl living in Holland’s capital city of Amsterdam during the late 1930s, she noticed one day that two of her classmates at school were speaking to each other in an unfamiliar language.

She asked her mother that evening what language her two classmates were speaking. Her mother answered that it was probably either German or Yiddish.

“I found out it was German later, because she and the girl were both born in Frankfort, in Germany,” Bates said.

Hannah Goslar was the name of one of the girls Bates asked about. The other was one of Goslar’s best friends.

Her name was Anne Frank. Read more on this interesting Skaneateles Journal article here.

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