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Edith Frank ( née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
We were housed in a school in Katowice. Mr Frank was sitting by himself at a long table when I entered. (...) I told him, “I don’t know anything about the children; they were taken away.”. And after a while, I told him about his wife. She had died in the bed beside me. Mr Frank didn’t move when I told him.’. Otto’s world collapsed.
FondsFamilyDiaryNewsImprintMediathequeFamily Frank CentreQ&AContact. © All rights reserved, Anne Frank Fonds. Edith Frank ist die Mutter von Anne. Nach der Verhaftung kämpft sie für ihre Töchter im Durchgangslager in Westerbrok und stirbt entkräftet in Auschwitz.
