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Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) [1] was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Edith was an open-minded woman who educated her daughters in a modern way. She found a school in Amsterdam that was based on the methods of Maria Montessori for her lively and freedom-loving daughter Anne. On 10 May 1940, the German army occupied the Netherlands.
Edith's relationship with Anne Frank. Subject. Edith Frank kept a baby picture book after the birth of her youngest daughter, in which she noted all sorts of things about Anne's health, appetite and growth. She continued to do this until 3 September 1929.
The Frank family lives there for more than two years, at first on their own, later with the Van Pels family – Hermann, Auguste and their son Peter – and the dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In her diary, Anne Frank describes everyday life and living together in the secret annex.
Jan 19, 2022 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Rosemary Sullivan about working on a book that potentially reveals who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.
- Mary Louise Kelly
While living in Germany, the Frank family saw the effects of the Great Depression firsthand, including rampant inflation and soaring unemployment. They witnessed, too, the rise of National Socialism and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
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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...
