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Originally Created by: Jennifer M. Added: Aug 19, 2004. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 9337549. Source citation. Holocaust Survivor. He gained recognition as being the father of World War II diarist Anne Frank. Born Otto Heinrich Frank in a Jewish German family, he served in the German army in World War I, being discharged at the rank of lieutenant ...
Diary of Anne Frank, 21 September 1942. In September 1942, only a few weeks after the Frank family went into hiding, Otto Frank and his thirteen-year-old daughter Anne began compiling Otto’s family tree. Over the following months, Anne became immersed in her family’s history based on the stories her parents told her.
After the liberation of Auschwitz, Otto Frank stayed for over a month in the camp infirmary to recover. Event. Jan. 27, 1945 - March 5, 1945. 50.026722 N 19.204194 E. Oświęcim. Bezet Polen. After Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, his long journey home and the search for his wife and children began.
Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of her experiences. Anne and her family went into hiding for two years to avoid Nazi persecution. Her documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl.
And yet they, along with the van Pels family—Hermann, Auguste, and son Peter (given the pseudonym van Daan in the diary) and Fritz Pfeffer (given the name Albert Düssel by Anne) all lived together in the close quarters of the Secret Annex, and have their own stories. Otto Frank and Family. The agony of all eight occupants of the Secret Annex ...
Otto Frank - Biography. Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born Swiss businessman. He was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary as The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947, and oversaw its transition to the stage and screen.
The book was published in 1947, just over five years after Anne's thirteenth birthday, the day she had received her diary. She had come up with the title of the book herself: Het Achterhuis ( The Secret Annex ). Looking back, Otto Frank wrote: ‘How proud Anne would have been if she had lived to see this. After all, on 29 March 1944, she wrote ...
