"As conditions in Anne's camp section were a lot worse than Hanneli's, she promised to bring Anne food and clothes. The next evening, Hanneli threw a parcel over the barbed wire. What the contents of the parcel were is not entirely clear because Hanneli's statements about it varied. In 1957, for example, she said the parcel consisted of a jumper in which a tin of sardines was wrapped, a few lumps of sugar and some pieces of rusk. In a 2009 interview, she recalled a sock or a glove, some dried plums and Swedish knäckebröd. But whatever was in this parcel, Anne never got it:
'And then I hear Anne crying and screaming and angry. What happened? No, I couldn't see her, and that barbed wire was high and the night was dark and I had to throw at what I hear. But there were hundreds of other hungry women there, and another woman had picked up that package, run away, and didn't give her anything. Well, I had to calm her down first and I promised: 'We'll do it again.´'
Eventually, Hanneli managed to put together a new parcel and this time it did reach Anne. The content of this second parcel is also unclear. In most interviews, Hanneli does not comment on this. In an interview from 1957, Hanneli described it as a pair of stockings and some food. In another interview from the same year, she is slightly more detailed:
'I collected a second pitiful parcel for Anne. A woman mourning her daughter’s death contributed a torn sweater and pair of cotton stockings in addition to the pieces of sugar and stale crackers other people gave me.'"
"Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen | Knowledge base | Anne Frank House"
https://research.annefrank.org/en/gebeurtenissen/bc828986-267f-43df-8605-6e858f0ccc0b/
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