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Otto Frank was the driving force behind the publication of the diary written by his daughter. He was involved with the Anne Frank House until his death. By managing the hiding place and sharing the life story of Anne Frank all around the world, we continue Otto Frank’s mission.
Auschwitz is liberated: Otto Frank is free. On 17 January 1945, the Auschwitz camp command started emptying Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Monowitz, and the sub-camps. The SS wanted to erase the traces of the crimes it had committed there. The Soviet army had broken through the German lines five days earlier and was drawing near.
Otto Frank was the only annex resident to survive the Holocaust. His wife Edith was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and daughters Margot and Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early spring 1945.
Dec 11, 2008 · Otto Frank. About Otto. Otto Frank was born on 12 May 1889 in Frankfurt, Germany. His father Michael was a banker and he had two brothers and a sister. Before the Secret Annex. Otto...
Otto Frank was the father of Margot and Anne Frank. Otto Heinrich Frank was born on Sunday, 12 May 1889 in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Kaufman (merchant) Michael Frank and Alice Betty Frank-Stern. [1] Otto was the second child of a family of four children, all born in Frankfurt am Main. He had two brothers, Robert Hermann and Herbert August ...
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.
In summer 1941, when everyday life for Jews in the Netherlands became increasingly difficult and there were frequent reports of deportations, Otto Frank started to look for a hiding place for himself and his family. He found it in the annex of his office building at Prinsengracht 263.
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