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Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations.
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Learn about the life and legacy of Otto Frank, the second son of Michael Frank and Alice Betty Stern, who was Anne Frank's father and the founder of the Anne Frank House. Find out how he left Germany, set up a business in Amsterdam, and hid with his family in the Secret Annex during the Holocaust.
4 days ago · Otto Frank (born May 12, 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died August 20, 1980, Basel, Switzerland) was a German-born merchant best known as the father of Anne Frank, whose diary, published after her death in 1945, became world famous.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Otto Frank was a German Jewish businessman who hid his family in a secret annex during the Holocaust and published Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' after his release from Auschwitz. Learn about his early years, business career, first marriage, life after loss, and death in this biography.
Otto Frank was the driving force behind the publication of his daughter's diary and the organisation of the Anne Frank House. He wanted to increase awareness of the Holocaust and fight discrimination and oppression. He also believed in education as the key to a better world.
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Otto Frank, the author of the Diary of Anne Frank, was in the sick bay of Auschwitz-Birkenau when the camp was evacuated by the Soviet army on 17 January 1945. He was one of the few survivors who managed to escape the death march and the camp, and he later wrote about his experience in his book The Annex.
Otto Frank was a German Jew who escaped Nazi Germany with his wife and two daughters to Amsterdam in 1940. He wrote to his old friend Nathan Straus Jr. for help to immigrate to the US, but the US State Department closed the visa waiting list and destroyed the visa stamps. He tried to go to Cuba, but the Cuban consulate closed and he was arrested by the Nazis. He died in a concentration camp in 1945.
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