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Otto Heinrich Frank was born on Sunday, 12 May 1889 in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Kaufman (merchant) Michael Frank and Alice Betty Frank-Stern. Otto was the second child of a family of four children, all born in Frankfurt am Main.
- Up to 1933
- 1933-1945
- Involvement in Jewish Organisations After1945
- Religious Views
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- Zionism and Israel
Otto Frank grew up in Frankfurt's Westend district, a neighbourhood made up of about 20%, mostly liberal, Jews. His own family also belonged to the liberal Jewish denomination. His parents considered themselves primarily German 'Bildungsbürger', for whom Jewish faith played no important role. According to Otto Frank, his grandmother had visited the...
With Rabbi Mehler's arrival, Otto and Edith were closely involved in the formation of the Liberal Jewish Congregation (LJG) in Amsterdam. He was among some 40 members who submitted a declaration of support to Queen Wilhelmina in May 1938 to declare the liberal Jewish community an independent denomination. Otto Frank was annoyed by the negative comm...
On 9 November 1945, an advertisement appeared in the Nieuw Israelitisch Weekblad calling on all members of the Liberal Jewish congregations in Amsterdam and The Hague and other interested parties to provide their names and addresses. Otto Frank responded on 17 November 1945: ''In response to your advertisement in the Nieuwe Israelitische Weekblad, ...
Otto Frank recognised the value of religion, without being truly religious himself.He had a universalist and strongly humanistic view of God, and after the war he carried prayers from different religions in his wallet. Otto Frank did not see God as a father who cared about each of his children, but believed in some kind of higher power, which has a...
Otto Frank rarely expressed himself explicitly on political issues, but correspondence shows that he was strongly anti-Communist. He spoke out in interviews against extremism of all directions and saw communism as being as great a danger as fascism. Nevertheless, he maintained good contacts with Jan Romein and Jacques Presser, among others. Romein ...
Otto Frank was ambivalent towards Zionism. He followed the movement with interest, and in the Secret Annex the people there read the book Palestina op de tweesprong ('Palestine on the Eve'), in which the British-Hungarian investigative journalist László Faragó described the Jewish-Arab tensions in the British protectorate of Palestine.When he and h...
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Otto Frank and Fritzi Markovits got married on 10 November 1953 in Amsterdam. Foto van Otto Frank en Fritzi Frank-Markovits voor het stadhuis op hun huwelijksdag, met Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Johanna Kleiman-Reuman en Miep Gies, Amsterdam, 10 november 1953. Fotobureau Colson.
Jan 22, 2022 · Children – Margot, Anne. Otto Frank Timeline. 1889 (12th May) Otto Frank was born Otto Heinrich Frank in Frankfurt, Germany to Michael and Alice Frank. He was the couple’s second child, his brother Robert had been born in 1886. Otto’s father owned a business bank. 1891 (during) Otto’s brother, Herbert was born to Michael and Alice Frank.
Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German industrialist who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband of Edith Frank, and was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.
In Anne’s eyes, Mr. Frank is one of the kindest, smartest, most gentle and thoughtful fathers imaginable. He almost always supports Anne and frequently takes her side during family arguments. He is generous, kind, and levelheaded, while the other adults in the annex can be stingy, harsh, and emotional.
Apr 30, 2003 · Julianne Duke, a former neighbor of the Franks’ in Amsterdam whose family had emigrated to the United States, remembers that her parents asked the Franks to join them: “Mrs. Frank wrote that...
