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Otto was separated from his family—he was sent to a men’s concentration camp in Poland, while his wife and daughters ended up in a concentration camp in northern Germany. Edith died from sickness on January 6, 1945, just three weeks before the camp was liberated.
Otto Frank recovers in camp infirmary Oświęcim Jan. 27, 1945 - March 5, 1945 After the liberation of Auschwitz, Otto Frank stayed for over a month in the camp infirmary to recover. Event. Liberation Otto Frank Auschwitz Jan. 27, 1945 On 27 January 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. Otto Frank was free. Event
Jan 25, 2024 · Otto Frank was the only one of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex to survive the concentration and extermination camps. On his journey back from Auschwitz to the Netherlands, he carried a small cotton bag. Otto Frank would hold on to the bag for the rest of his life.
Aug 11, 2022 · Otto’s step-daughter Eva Schloss (née Geiringer), who survived the concentration camp, did not speak of her experiences until after her stepfather Otto died. Today, she is celebrated as a memoirist and educator, and has also spoken to History Hit about her extraordinary life. Here’s the story of Eva Schloss’ life, featuring quotes in her own words.
- Who Was Anne Frank?
- Anne Frank’s Family Goes Into Hiding
- Anne Frank's Death
- Anne Frank’s Diary
- Anne Frank Quotes
Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929, to Edith Hollander Frank (1900-45) and Otto Frank (1889-1980), a prosperous businessman. Less than four years later, in January 1933, Adolf Hitlerbecame chancellor of Germany and he and his Nazi government instituted a series of measures aimed at persecuting Germany’s...
Margot Frank received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany in July 1942. Anne Frank’s family went into hiding in an attic apartment behind Otto Frank’s business, located at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, on July 6, 1942. In an effort to avoid detection, the family left a false trail suggesting they’d fled to Switzerland. A wee...
On August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster (who has never been definitively identified). After their arrest, the Franks, Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer were sent by the G...
When Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam following his release from Auschwitz, Miep Gies gave him five notebooks and some 300 loose papers containing Anne’s writings. Gies had recovered the materials from the Secret Annex shortly after the Franks’ arrest by the Nazis and had hidden them in her desk. (Margot Frank also kept a diary, but it was never fo...
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The go...
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Unexpectedly, the Sicherheitspolizei raided the hiding place together with Dutch police officers. The people from the Secret Annex were taken to Westerbork and then put on a transport to Auschwitz. Otto Frank was the only one of them to survive the concentration camps.
In autumn 1942, gassings in the camp crematorium at Auschwitz I ceased. From 1943, Auschwitz-Birkenau became the centre of the Holocaust. In September 1944, the males from the Secret Annex ended up in Auschwitz-I. Otto would remain a prisoner there until the liberation of the camp in January 1945.
