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Her parents ran a family business, trading in scrap metal, machinery and parts, boilers, other appliances, and semi-finished products. Edith had a carefree childhood until her older sister Bettina died. The cause of her death is unknown. At only fourteen, Edith was harshly confronted with death.
Fellow camp inmate Rosa (Ro) de Winter described Edith's death in her booklet Aan de gaskamer ontsnapt! ('Escaped the Gas Chamber!') (August 1945). Edith had a fever of forty-one degrees Celsius. Ro de Winter took her to the 'Ambulance' (infirmary). She was admitted to the 'Revier' (infirmary hut).
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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)
Died on: Jan. 6, 1945. Died in: Auschwitz-Birkenau. Edith Frank-Holländer, Amsterdam, mei 1935 of 1936. Polyfoto. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. Publiek domein. According to her birth certificate, Edith Holländer was born on 16 January 1900 in Aachen, at Heinrichsallee 50.
Margot Frank died in February 1945 at the age of 19 from typhus; a few days later, Anne died from it. Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper and her sister Lientje buried them together in one of the camp's mass graves; in July 1945, once Janny came back to the Netherlands and recovered from typhus, she wrote to Otto Frank and informed him that both of his ...
- Older sister of Anne Frank
^ 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 ...
On 30 October, Anne and Margot Frank, along with Auguste van Pels and one thousand other women, were selected for deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. They left the next day. Event. Death of Edith Frank Oświęcim Jan. 6, 1945 Edith Frank-Holländer died in Auschwitz-Birkenau on 6 January 1945. Event. Show more Show less events