Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German police officer as well as entrepreneur.
He was birthed in a German-Jewish bankierfamilie in Frankfurt, as well as served in the German Army on the Western Front throughout the First World War, where he attained the degree of lieutenant and got the Iron Cross. In 1925 he married in Aachen synagogue Edith Holländer, child of Abraham Holländer, a popular business person from Aachen. Mr. as well as Mrs. Frank had little girls Margot Frank (birthed 1926) and also Anne Frank (born 1929).
After the National Socialists to power, he moved with his family to Amsterdam, where throughout World War II remained in hiding in Prinsengracht 263 On the morning of 4 August 1944 the police stormed the structure after obtaining a confidential tip. Otto Frank was sent out to concentration camps Auschwitz as well as Westerbork. His other half as well as daughters wound up in Bergen-Belsen, where they died of disease or fatigue soon prior to war's end.
As the household's only survivor, he found that Anne had actually written a journal, which had been conserved by Miep Gies. He let the very first be to review it, but after having actually transcribed it, he chose to get it published. Some flows in which Anne Frank wrote negatively about his mother he removed nonetheless.
In 1953 he married a previous neighbor, Elfriede Geir Inger-Marko Joke, and settled in Basel in Switzerland, where he spent the remainder of his life to promoting his child's memory and message.
Our collection contains 3 quotes who is written / told by Otto.
"I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait"
"We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return"
"For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings"
