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In hiding: 6 July 1942. Arrested: 4 August 1944. Married to: Fritzi Markovits, 10 November 1953. Died: 19 August 1980. Otto Frank is best known as Anne’s father. Without him, Anne's diary would not have been published, and without him, there would not have been an Anne Frank House.
Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations.
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Mar 14, 2024 · Otto Frank German-born merchant best known as the father of Anne Frank, whose diary, published after her death in 1945, became world famous. Frank, decorated for bravery as a German officer in World War I, escaped with his family from the Nazi anti-Jewish persecutions in Germany before the outbreak.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Jewish businessman Otto Frank hid his family during the Holocaust and published daughter Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl' after his release from Auschwitz. Updated: Sep 12, 2019....
Otto Frank sifted through the documents – a chequered autograph book, an exercise book, a sheaf of loose papers. Their author, 15-year-old Anne Frank, had died of typhus in a German concentration camp a few months earlier, in spring 1945. Now Otto, her father, was reading words he had never imagined his daughter could write.
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. Here's Otto’s story.
