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The Franks were an old German Jewish family. Otto Frank's father, a businessman, came from Landau in the Palatinate (a section of Germany). His mother's family can be traced in the archives of Frankfurt back to the seventeenth century. Otto Frank was born and grew up in Frankfurt-on-Main and, after graduating from high school, went into ...
Aug 21, 1980 · The cause of death was not reported, but news agencies said he had experienced breathing difficulties for six months. Mr. Frank was born in Frankfort, Germany. Anne, the second of his two...
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- The First Allegations
- Lothar Stielau and Heinrich Buddeberg
- Walter Hainke
- Publisher Ullstein and David Irving
- Richard Harwood
- Robert Faurisson
- Heinz Roth
- Ernst Römer
- Edgar Werner Geiss
- Start of The Ballpoint Myth
The first allegations against the diary came in 1957 and 1958 in obscure Swedish and Norwegian periodicals. In them, among other claims, it was alleged that the American journalist and novelist Meyer Levin was the author of the diary. Levin wanted to make a stage adaptation and a film of the diary in the USA, but was not supported in this by Otto F...
Early in 1959 he lodged a criminal complaint on the grounds of libel, slander, defamation, maligning the memory of a deceased person and antisemitic utterances against the German teacher Lothar Stielau (a teacher of English in Lübeck, and member of the extreme right-wing Deutsche Reichspartei). Stielau wrote in the magazine of the Vereinigung ehem...
On 21 November 1966, the Oberstaatsanwalt in Darmstadt wrote to Otto Frank about a letter, which Walter Hainke, in April of that year, had sent to the mayor of Offenbach. This was in response to the decision to name a new school in Offenbach Anne Frank Schule. Walter Hainke called Anne the"bedaurenwertens an Fleckfieber verstorbenes Mädchen", who w...
In the introduction to the book Hitler und seine Feldherren, David Irving wrote in 1975:'Viele Fälschungen sind aktenkundig wie diejenige des Tagebuchs der Anne Frank, hier erbrachte ein von einem New-Yorker Drehbuchautor angestrengter Zivilprozess den Beweis, dass er es in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Vater des Mädchens geschrieben hatte hatte.' Otto Fr...
In the aftermath of the Ullstein/Irving affair, Otto Frank came across a piece by Richard Harwood, published by the Historical Review Pressin Surrey. He expressed his intention to bring a case against it as well. 1. 11 March 1976: Harwood turned out to be the pseudonym of Richard Verrall. He appeared to be a member of the National Front. However, t...
Through the Anne Frank House, Otto Frank received a letter dated 5 March 1977 from Faurisson, who expressed interest in the diary as a scholar at the University of Lyon. Otto replied that he was willing to receive him on 9 March 1977and show him the original diaries. In a letter dated 30 March 1977, Otto Frank described Faurisson as an unsympatheti...
In 1976, Otto Frank brought a legal action before the District Court in Frankfurt against Heinz Roth, from Odenhausen in Germany. Through his own publishing company, Roth had distributed numerous neo-Nazi pamphlets with titles like The Diary of Anne Frank – A Forgery, and The Diary of Anne Frank – The Great Fraud, and in a reader's letter in Neue O...
On the ocasion of the performances of Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank in Hamburg, Römer distributed pamphlets in February 1976. These contained a translation of an article from the Historical Review Press. The pamphlet had the headline'Best-seller, ein Schwindel', and reappeared with the story about compensation to Meyer Levin. Otto Frank filed a lawsu...
During an appeal hearing in the Römer case on 28 August 1978, Geiss distributed pamphlets attacking the authenticity of the diary. Geiss also arrived with Meyer Levin. He was sentenced to six months with the alternative of a fine of DM 1,500.
1-2 April 1980: In the Birsfelden town hall, experts examined the manuscripts on behalf of the Hamburg court. This was in connection with the cases against Römer and Geiss. They took samples of the paper and ink, and found, among other things, that correction marks - partly with biros due to later editing - had been applied. The paper and high-iron...
Gertrud was one of the first friends in Germany with whom Otto Frank got in touch after the war. In 1949, Gertrud married Karl Trenz. She died in 2002 at the age of 85. [citation needed] Bernhard (Bernd) "Buddy" Elias was a cousin of Anne's who lived in Switzerland and a great favorite of hers.
Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German industrialist who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband of Edith Frank, and was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the ...
- German (revoked), Swiss, Dutch
- Birsfelden's Cemetery
- Spice merchant
- 19 August 1980 (aged 91), Birsfelden, Switzerland
Up to 1933. Otto Frank grew up in Frankfurt's Westend district, a neighbourhood made up of about 20%, mostly liberal, Jews. His own family also belonged to the liberal Jewish denomination. His parents considered themselves primarily German 'Bildungsbürger', for whom Jewish faith played no important role.
For two years, young Anne penned the daily struggles her family endured while hiding away in a secret annex of an office in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. After the war, the sole surviving member of the Frank family, Anne’s father Otto, brought the diary to the world’s attention. Without him, no one would have ever read Anne Frank's diary.
