Otto Frank
Otto Frank
Born	Otto Heinrich Frank May 12, 1889(1889-05-12) Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died	August 19, 1980 (aged 91)
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Nationality	German
Home town	Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Known for	The Diary of a Young Girl
Religious beliefs	Jewish
Spouse	Edith Holländer
Children	Anne Frank and Margot Frank

Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. He inherited Anne Frank's manuscripts after her death, and arranged for the publication of her diary in 1947. Image File history File links Otto Frank File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... The Diary of Anne Frank redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Edith Frank-Höllander Edith Frank-Holländer (January 16, 1900 – January 6, 1945), was the mother of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War... Margot Frank, May 1942 Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 – late Feburary or early March, 1945) was the elder sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War... Margot Frank, May 1942 Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 – late Feburary or early March, 1945) was the elder sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. ... The Diary of Anne Frank redirects here. ...

World War II

Born into a banking family in Frankfurt am Main, Frank served in the Imperial German Army on the Western Front during World War I, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1915. He married Edith Holländer on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt-am-Main, and their first daughter, Margot, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne on 12 June 1929. In 1926 he had an affair with Emma Leuschen. Their relationship was unhealthy, and they split apart in 1927. The German Army (Deutsches Heer) was the name given the combined armed forces of the German Empire, also known as the Imperial Army (Reichsheer) or Imperial German Army. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank. ... Edith Frank-Höllander Edith Frank-Holländer (January 16, 1900 – January 6, 1945), was the mother of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Margot Frank, May 1942 Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 – late Feburary or early March, 1945) was the elder sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding, and who subsequently perished in Bergen-Belsen. ... is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As the tide of Nazism rose in Germany and anti-Jewish decrees encouraged attacks on Jewish individuals and families, Frank decided to evacuate his family to the safer western nations of Europe. In the summer of 1933 he moved his family to Aachen, where his wife's mother resided, in preparation for a subsequent and final move to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In 1938 and in 1941 he attempted to obtain visas for his family to emigrate to the United States or Cuba. He was granted a single visa for himself to Cuba on December 1, 1941, but no one knows if it ever reached him. Ten days later, when Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy declared war on the United States, the visa was cancelled by Havana.^[1][2] Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oche redirects here; in darts the oche is the line from which players must throw. ... For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ... is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... During the era of World War II (1939 - 1945), Italy had a very varied and tumultuous military history. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ...

In response to a call-up notice sent to his daughter Margot in July 1942, Frank took his family into hiding in the upper rear rooms of the Opekta premises on the Prinsengracht. They were joined two weeks later by Hermann van Pels and his wife and son, and in November by Fritz Pfeffer also known in Anne's diary as Mr. Dussel. Their concealment was aided by Otto Frank's colleagues Johannes Kleiman, whom he had known since 1923, Miep Gies, Victor Kugler, and Bep Voskuijl. Opekta was a business run from 1933 to 1953 by Anne Franks father Otto Frank, which distributed a pectin-based gelling preparation, to be used in jam making. ... The Prinsengracht is one of the main canals in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ... Hermann van Pels, July 1941 Hermann van Pels (31 March 1898–6 September 1944) was a German-Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, and who was killed in Auschwitz after they were betrayed to the Gestapo. ... Auguste van Pels, July 1941 Auguste van Pels (September 29, 1900 - May 8, 1945) was a German-Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who subsequently died in one of the many Nazi concentration camps. ... Peter van Pels (November 8, 1926 – c May 5, 1945), was a German Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and seven other people in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. ... Fritz Pfeffer, 1938 Friedrich Fritz Pfeffer (April 30, 1889 – December 20, 1944) was a German dentist and Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who perished in the Neuengamme concentration camp in Northern Germany. ... Johnannes Kleiman (August 17, 1896 - January 28, 1959) was one of the Dutch citizens who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. ... Miep Gies (born February 15, 1909, Vienna, Austria) is one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II. She discovered and preserved Annes diary after Anne Franks arrest and deportation. ... Victor Kugler (June 5, 1900-December 16, 1981) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. ... Elisabeth Bep Voskuijl (July 5, 1919 - May 6, 1983) helped conceal Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands. ...

They were concealed for two years, until they were betrayed by an anonymous informant in August 1944. Frank, his family, the four people he hid with, and Kugler and Kleiman were arrested by SS Officer Karl Silberbauer. After being imprisoned in Amsterdam, the Jewish prisoners were sent to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork and finally to Auschwitz. Here Frank was separated from his wife and daughters. He was sent to the men's barracks and found himself in the sick barracks when he was liberated by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945. He travelled back to the Netherlands over the next six months and set about tracing his arrested family and friends. By the end of 1945, he knew he was the sole survivor of the family, and of those who had hidden in the house on the Prinsengracht. SS redirects here. ... Karl Josef Silberbauer Karl Josef Silberbauer (1911 – 1972) held the rank of SS - Oberstabsfeldwebel (Sergeant Major) in the Dutch Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (German Security Service). ... This article is about the concentration camp. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... For other organizations known as the Red Army, see Red Army (disambiguation). ... is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...

See also

• People associated with Anne Frank

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References

1. ^ "Anne Frank family letters released", CNN.com, 2007-02-14. Retrieved on 2007-02-14. 
2. ^ "In Old Files, Fading Hopes of Anne Frank’s Family", NYT.com, 2007-02-15. Retrieved on 2007-02-15. 

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Further reading

• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank ISBN 0-553-29698-1
• Anne Frank Remembered, Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold ISBN 0-671-66234-1
• The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-91331-6
• Roses from the Earth: the biography of Anne Frank, Carol Ann Lee ISBN 0-670-88140-6
• Love, Otto, Cara Wilson ISBN 0-8362-7032-0
• Eva's Story, Eva Schloss ISBN 0-9523716-9-3

External links

• Profile of Otto Frank's early life, written by the Anne Frank House
• Otto Frank during World War One, written by the Anne Frank House
• Article about Otto Frank and the opening of the Anne Frank House
• BBC video interview with Otto Frank in 1976 (requires Realplayer)
• Video interview with Otto Frank's second wife (Requires Quicktime)
• Short article about Otto Frank's last years, with a photo taken in 1979

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