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Vrouwen in het spoor van Anne Frank, Hilversum: Gooi & Sticht, 1988, p. 143; Related people (2) Anne Frank 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
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Edith was the youngest of four children, having been born into a German Jewish family in Aachen, Germany. Her father, Abraham Holländer (1860–1928) was a successful businessman in industrial equipment who was active in the Aachen Jewish community together with Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer (1866–1942). Edith had two older brothers, Julius (1894–19...
She met Otto Frank in 1924 and they married on his 36th birthday, 12 May 1925, at Aachen's synagogue. They had two daughters born in Frankfurt: Margot (born 16 February 1926) and Anne (born 12 June 1929). At the time Anne was born, the family lived in a house at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-Dornbusch, where they rented two floors. Her daughters play...
The appointment of Adolf Hitler on 30 January 1933, to the position of chancellor in Germany and the following rise of antisemitism and start of discriminatory laws in Germany forced the family to emigrate to Amsterdam in 1933. In the Dutch capital Otto established a branch of his spice and pectin distribution company, called Opekta. Edith found em...
In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands and began their persecution of the country's Jews. Edith's children were removed from their schools, and her husband Otto Frank was forced by the Germans to give up his companies Opekta and Pectacon. Otto made his businesses look "Aryan" by giving over control to his Dutch colleagues Johannes Kleiman and V...
- Otto Frank, (m. 1925; her death, 1945)
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^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 3 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. Pim is the pet name Anne used for her father. Related people (1) Edith Frank - Holländer Edith Frank-Holländer was the mother of Margot and Anne Frank. Person. Visit us. Anne Frank Huis ...
The family lived in confined conditions and she struggled with the new language. She remained in contact with her family and friends in Germany through regular letters. In March 1939, her mother, Rosa Holländer, managed to emigrate. Until her death on 29 January 1942, she lived with Edith and her family in Amsterdam.
Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edith Frank ( née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz ...
Dec 5, 2008 · Before the Secret Annex. Edith married Otto Frank on 12 May 1925. Margot was born nine months later on 16 February 1926 and Anne followed on 12 June 1929.
When the First World War broke out in 1914, the Frank family’s three sons all served as front-line soldiers in the German army. Alice and her daughter Leni worked as auxiliary nurses in a Red Cross military hospital. After the war, Otto Frank was awarded the Iron Cross for his military services.
