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    • Who Was Otto Frank?
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    In 1942, Otto Frank and his family went into hiding in a secret annex above his office. In 1944, the Gestapo raided the annex and the family was sent to Auschwitz. Frank was the only one to survive. In 1947, he published daughter Anne Frank's journal under the title The Diary of a Young Girl. He died in Basel, Switzerland, on August 19, 1980.

    Otto Frank was born to a liberal Jewish family on May 12, 1889, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Frank had three siblings: an older brother, and a younger brother and sister. His father, Michael, ran the family bank. After graduating from high school, Frank spent a summer studying art history at the University of Heidelberg.

    Following this summer semester, Frank worked at a local bank for one year. He had also recently begun studying economics. When a former classmate set up an internship for Frank at Macy's Department Store in Manhattan, New York, he jumped at the chance to gain business experience. Unfortunately, in 1909, just a couple of weeks after Frank arrived in...

    Frank married his first wife, Edith Holländer, on May 12, 1925. Edith gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Margot, on February 16, 1926. On June 12, 1929, Edith and Otto rejoiced in the birth of their youngest daughter, Annelies Marie Frank, more commonly known as Anne Frank. In 1933, Otto relocated the family to Holland to avoi...

    When Holland was invaded by Germany in 1940, Jews were no longer allowed to run their own businesses. Frank was forced to appoint his Dutch colleagues as the official owners of his companies. In 1942, Margot received a letter demanding that she report to a work camp. As a result, Frank and his family went into hiding in a secret annex just above hi...

    Months later, Frank's former secretary, Miep Gies, found Anne's diary in the abandoned annex and gave it to Otto. In 1947, he had the journal published under the title The Diary of a Young Girl. Frank remarried, to fellow Jewish survivor Elfriede (Fritzi) Markovits, in 1953. The couple moved to Switzerland, where they would live out the remainder o...

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  4. The camp was visited by journalists, photos were taken, and films were shot. Otto Frank was nursed in the camp and recovered slowly. After three weeks, he went outside for the first time. He left Auschwitz on 5 March and went on to Katowice, a city 35 kilometres away, to go home from there.

  5. Jan 25, 2024 · Overview. Otto Franks Cotton Bag from Auschwitz. The cotton bag carried home by Otto Frank. Collection: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam / photo: Harold Strak. Jan. 25, 2024 — On 27 January 1945, 79 years ago, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.

  6. 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.

  7. Otto Frank escaped Nazi Germany with his wife and two daughters soon after Hitler came to power in 1933. They lived a peaceful life in Amsterdam until May 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands.

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