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  2. Otto Frank’s second marriage. On 10 November 1953, Otto Frank married Elfriede Edith Markovits (Fritzi) at Amsterdam City Hall on Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197. It was a second marriage for both of them. Like Otto, Fritzi had lost her partner in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  3. Otto’s mother, Alice Frank-Stern, is sitting in front of Otto. On their fourteenth wedding anniversary, in 1939, Otto wrote Edith a letter. In it, he described their marriage as harmonious, united, tolerant, and dedicated, in spite of their difficulties. The bride and groom with family members.

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    He couldn’t stop reading. Anne’s words were a revelation to Otto. He began sharing translated portions of the diary with his mother, then telling others. Eventually, persuaded by a historian and a friend who convinced him the diary was a significant document, he agreed to seek publication. But the manuscript that Otto Frank pitched to Dutch editors...

    Meanwhile, the world wrangled over the Holocaust. As Anne’s diary garnered more and more readers and international fame, it became the target of deniers who argued it was a fraud or forgery. The very writing that had endeared Anne to generations of readers convinced some that the book had been written by an adult; others questioned the day-to-day a...

    A glimpse at the five original pages explained Otto’s reluctance to publish them: they deal with Anne’s impressions of her parents’ marriage, which she characterised as “tepid”. And tiny fragments of new material continue to come to light: in 1995, an expanded version of the diary included Anne’s description of her own genitalia. And in 2016, conse...

    But perhaps more insidious are the ways in which readers have misinterpreted Anne Frank’s legacy over time. The most well-known quote from her book: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,” has been upheld as evidence of hope for humanity despite the horrors of the Holocaust. But Anne actually penned the words...

  4. Otto Frank was the father of Margot and Anne Frank. 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. [1] Otto was the second child of a family of four children, all born in Frankfurt am Main. He had two brothers, Robert Hermann and Herbert August ...

  5. 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.

  6. He remained in Holland until 1953 , when he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to join his sister’s family. He married another Auschwitz survivor and devoted the rest of his life to promoting Anne’s diary. A detailed description and in-depth analysis of Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank.

  7. Mar 2, 2003 · Otto Frank was born in Frankfurt in 1889 to a family so assimilated that his grandmother went to synagogue only once, to be married. His father, a banker, died when Frank was 20.

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