WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Anne Frank's stepsister said all Holocaust photos are fake.
OUR VERDICT
False. She did not say that all Holocaust photos are fake.
AAP FACTCHECK - A short excerpt of an interview with Jewish diarist Anne Frank's stepsister is being used to falsely claim she described all Holocaust images as fake.
Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss clearly describes the horrors of the German Nazi death camp, where more than one million people were murdered as part of the Holocaust during World War II, in the full interview.
In a selectively edited excerpt used in a Facebook post, she does reference "fake" footage.
However, Ms Schloss is specifically talking about some footage taken by the Russians in the days and weeks after the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
"ANNE FRANKS (sic) SISTER SAYS HOLOCAUST PICTURES ARE ALL FAKE," text overlaying the Facebook video reads.
The clip is taken from an interview on the Good Morning Britain TV show to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in January 2020.
Ms Schloss mentions during the interview that she recalls visiting a Russian embassy and seeing images of the liberation.
"Many pictures about the Russians liberating Auschwitz and there's never any snow. The snow was honestly that high," she says, gesticulating.
"I said 'something puzzles me, those photos are fakes, because there's no snow'.
"They took pictures, like you see now, but this is definitely not in Auschwitz and not the liberation of Auschwitz."
Many in the comments have taken the video as evidence that the Holocaust never happened.
"6m is a huge huge huge lie!!!" one user posted, in reference to the estimated death toll from the Holocaust.
"I've heard Anne Frank didn't even die. Propaganda literature," another posted.
However, the full interview makes clear Ms Schloss is in no way suggesting all Holocaust images are fake.
She talks about being liberated from Auschwitz herself and describes what she witnessed while she was imprisoned there.
"There were tens of thousands of people in inhuman conditions, without food, without clothing, in the winter, with illnesses, with lice, no toilets," she said (timestamp 36 seconds).
"No drinking water. In the hot summer, in the big snow. You slept in a big bunk with eight people. Very often in the morning, the person who slept next to you didn't wake up. So you spent half the night next to a dead body."
Ms Schloss also talks about the constant threat of being gassed, and how her mother was selected for the gas chamber but miraculously survived and later married Anne Frank's father.
Later in the full interview, when Ms Schloss talks about the photos, it's clear she's specifically referring to Russian images of the liberation of the death camp.
Some images were staged at a later date because Auschwitz was liberated by Russian troops before army cameramen arrived in the area.
Ms Schloss specifically refers to those particular images, not all Holocaust pictures.
The Auschwitz Museum said that while some scenes captured by the Soviet cameramen do not show the exact moment of liberation, they are still "important documents revealing the crimes perpetrated by the Germans in Auschwitz".
Ms Schloss is a prominent Auschwitz survivor who has given interviews and written multiple books about her experiences.
She has spoken out against Holocaust denial, including demanding that it be removed from Facebook.
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