Anne Frank’s Father’s Letters Disclosed

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Published: Jan 26, 2007, 01:34 AM ET
Updated:Feb 10, 2022, 01:23 PM ET

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.

Anne Frank’s Father’s Letters Disclosed

Anne Frank’s Father’s Letters Disclosed

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