Otto heinrich frank biography

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    «Father has been home a lot lately. There’s nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you’re not needed. Mr Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941.
    A few days ago, as we were taking a stroll around our neighbourhood square, Father began to talk about going into hiding. He said it would be very hard for us to live cut off from the rest of the world. I asked him why he was bringing this up now.
    «Well, Anne,» he replied, «you know that for more than a year we’ve been sending our clothes, food and furniture to other people. We don’t want our belongings to be seized by the Germans. Nor do we want to fall into their clutches ourselves. So we’ll leave of our own accord and not wait to be hauled away.»
    «But when, Father?» He sounded so serious that I felt scared.
    «Don’t you worry. We’ll take care of everything. Just enjoy your carefree life whi

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    Otto Frank

    Father of Anne Frank (1889–1980)

    For other people with similar names, see Otto Franke.

    Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a ung Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam.

    Early life

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    Otto Heinrich Frank was born into a Jewish family.[2] He was the second of four children born to Alice Betty (née Stern, 1865–1953) and Michael Frank (1851–1909).[3] His elder brother was Robert Frank, and younger siblings were Herbert Frank and Helene (Leni) Frank.[4] Otto was a cousin of the furniture designerJean-Michel Frank and a grandson of Zacharias Frank. His father

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    Otto Heinrich Frank

    When Otto Heinrich Frank was born on 12 May 1889, in Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany, his father, Michael Frank, was 37 and his mother, Alice Betty Stern, was 23. He married Edith Sara Holländer on 12 May 1925, in Aachen, Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany in 1889 and United States in 1909. He registered for military service in 1915. He died on 19 August 1980, in Birsfelden, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, at the age of 91, and was buried in Friedhof Birsfelden, Basel, Basel, Switzerland.