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Hiding in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht. In July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding. The Van Pels family followed a week later. The two families already knew each other: Hermann van Pels worked for Otto’s company. Four months later, they were joined by an eighth person: Fritz Pfeffer, an acquaintance of the Frank family.
After the First World War, Otto and Herbert Frank took over the management of their father’s bank. The small banking business provided a livelihood for what was now a growing family: Helene married Erich Elias, who also joined the bank. In 1925 Otto married Edith Holländer, the daughter of a prosperous metal wholesaler from Aachen.
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who became world-famous thanks to the diary she wrote during the Second World War, while she was in hiding in the Achterhuis (the Annex) on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Person. Edith Frank - Holländer Edith Frank-Holländer was the mother of Margot and Anne Frank. Person. Margot Frank Margot Frank was the sister of ...
Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. Anne’s sister Margot was three years her senior. Unemployment was high and poverty was severe in Germany, and it was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his party were gaining more and more supporters. Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for the problems in the country.
Otto Frank died of lung cancer on 19 August 1980 in Birsfelden and his ashes were buried in the town's cemetery, where Elfriede would also be buried, in the same tomb, 18 years later. He was survived by his stepdaughter Eva Schloss, his sister Helene Frank (Edith Frank's sister-in-law) and her two children.
Jun 12, 2020 · Edith, their mother, remained at Auschwitz-Birkenau and died of starvation in January of 1945. Otto Frank, her father, somehow survived Auschwitz and returned to Amsterdam after the war. Otto’s ...
