But it’s also her way of repaying Anne Frank’s father, Otto, who comforted Konig in the aftermath of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, even as he was grieving for his own two daughters and wife.
Otto Frank was a German Jewish father who lost his daughters in Auschwitz. Yarden Bibas is an Israeli Jewish father who lost his two young children in Gaza at the hands of Hamas. Both have ...
Anne Frank died of typhus at the age of 15 in Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Jewish teenager’s account of ...
Whereas the real secret annex has long been left empty in accordance with Otto Frank’s wishes (the emptiness "symbolizes the void left behind by the millions of people who were deported and ...
She was 15. The familiarity owes everything to Otto Frank, who survived the war and in 1947 arranged for his daughter’s writings to be published in Dutch. Quirky, sensitive, sharp, intelligent ...
Otto Frank, the father of famed diary writer and Holocaust victim Anne Frank, visited the BBC in 1976, where he explained his decision to have his daughter’s diary published. Anne Frank’s ...
After Anne Frank's older sister Margot received a letter ordering her to report to one of the German work camps in 1942, the family went into hiding in a secret annex in the building that housed Otto ...