Anne Frank-Fonds

Otto Heinrich Frank, born in Frankfurt/Main on 12 May 1889, of German nationality. Married Edith Frank, née Holländer, born in Aachen on 16 January 1900 who perished in Auschwitz concentration camp on 6 January 1945.
Children: Margot Betty, born in Frankfurt/Main on 16 February 1926 and Annelies Marie (ANNE FRANK).

August 1933	Emigrates from Frankfurt/Main to Amsterdam.
6 July 1942	The Frank family hides in the annexe of a house at Prinsengracht 263.
4 August 1944	Betrayal and arrest.
8 August 1944	Imprisoned in Westerbork (Holland) concentration camp.
3 to 6 September 1944	The family is transported on the last train from Westerbork (Holland) to Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland).
3 June 1945	Arrives in Amsterdam via Russia after liberation from Auschwitz as the only member of his family to survive.

Subsequently moves to Switzerland to join his closest relatives who live in Basle. 10 November 1953: Marries Elfriede Geiringer-Markovits, born in Vienna on 13 February 1905, died in London on 1 October 1998. Otto H. Frank devotes himself to publication of his daughter's Diary and to spreading the message it contains.

19 August 1980: Dies in Birsfelden near Basle where he lived for many years and where he is also buried.

Carol Anne Lee: "Otto Frank's Secret"

Of the many authors, writers and historians who have written on Anne Frank and her father Otto Frank, Carol Anne Lee is the most knowledgeable and sets new scholarly standards.

I was very sceptical before meeting this young woman but, after getting to know her, I soon came to realize that she had a vast knowledge on the subject and knew facts about Anne Frank and her family that not even I was aware of.

There is nobody who has done more acute and focussed research on the subject than Carol Anne Lee. Unlike many others she is not out to make money with the name Anne Frank. From the age of six on when she heard the name Anne Frank for the first time and got to know about her fate she collected everything she was able to find on this astonishing young girl. Her interest in, and affection for, Anne Frank grew stronger the older she got and the more conscious she became of what had really happened.

Her interest did not end with reading "Anne Frank's Diary". On the contrary: now her research on the fate of the family and all the others who had been hiding in the Prinsengracht began in earnest. In particular, she was fascinated by Otto Frank as a person and by the story of his life. What kind of man was he? Where did he draw his strength from to bear such a terrible fate? And who gave away those in hiding? Carol Anne Lee did not settle for the established facts and familiar answers, instead she continued her investigations and moved on with her research into hitherto unfathomed depths. She came across names and connections in the Dutch Nazi-scene that the local historians had either denied completely or paid too little attention to. Drawing on statements made by the son and the brother of the main suspect, a member of the Dutch Nazi Party who had tried to blackmail Otto Frank before he and his family went into hiding, Carol Anne Lee has, I believe, succeeded in unmasking the real culprit.

"Otto Frank's Secret" is a thrilling and extremely informative book about a man who has come into the focus of public attention through the fate of his world-famous daughter.

Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's cousin and President of the AFF, Basel.