Otto Frank

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Otto Frank was a German-born Jewish businessman and the father of diarist Anne Frank, who was the only immediate family member to survive the Holocaust and later helped publish her famous diary.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust survivor
businessperson
human
burialPlace Basel NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath lung cancer
child Anne Frank
Margot Frank
conflict World War I
countryOfBirth German Empire
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Netherlands
countryOfDeath Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1889-05-12
dateOfDeath 1980-08-19
employer Opekta
Pectacon
ethnicGroup Jewish people
familyName Frank
father Michael Frank
givenName Otto
languagesSpoken Dutch
English
German
militaryBranch Imperial German Army
mother Alice Betty Stern
movement Holocaust remembrance
notableEvent arranged for the publication of Anne Frank’s diary in 1947
arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1944
discovered that he was the only surviving member of his immediate family after the Holocaust
received Anne Frank’s diary from Miep Gies
returned to Amsterdam after World War II
went into hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam in 1942
notableWork editing and arranging publication of The Diary of Anne Frank
promotion of Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam
occupation banker
businessman
spice and pectin trader
placeOfBirth Frankfurt am Main
placeOfDeath Basel NERFINISHED
placeOfDetention Auschwitz concentration camp
placeOfResidence Amsterdam
Basel NERFINISHED
Frankfurt am Main
positionHeld officer in the Imperial German Army during World War I
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male
spouse Edith Frank
Elfriede Geiringer
survived Auschwitz concentration camp


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