Anne Frank’s Father’s Letters Disclosed
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Newly disclosed letters written by the father of Anne Frank illuminate his desperate attempts to get the family out of Nazi-occupied Netherlands. The letters document how Otto Frank tried to arrange for his family — wife Edith, daughters Margo and Anne, and mother-in-law Rosa Hollander — to go to America or Cuba. His attempts were unsuccessful. The family took refuge in July 1942, hiding for more than two years before being arrested.
