Friday, January 26, 2007

Letters from the Franks! Read all about it!!

Some letters have been found that may shed light light on the family of Anne Frank.
The letters, sent from Anne's father, Otto, to friends and family, document his efforts to try to get his family out of Holland.
The letters say that Otto had tried to get Edith, (his wife) Anne, Margot, (Anne's sister) and his mother-in-law out of Holland before January 1943. Unfortunately, it didn't work. The Nazi police caught them, and they were sent off to concentration camps across Europe. Anne had left her diary in the annex where her family was hiding, hoping that she would come back.
She never did, but Otto Frank came back and published Anne's diary as a book. It has sold over forty million copies!
Otto Frank was the only Frank who made it out of the concentration camps alive. Anne died of typhus at age fifteen at Bergen-Belsen, a Polish camp. Otto died in 1980, but not before establishing the Anne Frank Foundation, which has turned the secret annex into a museum.

The letters were actually found over a year ago, but YIVO, the Jewish research center in New York where the letters are being held, was afraid to let it be known, fearing legal battles. They will finally be revealed to the public on Febuary 14th, 2007.
The letters themselves were written between April 30th, 1941, and December 11th, 1941.

Here is the news website,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070125/ap_on_re_us/otto_frank_letters

YIVO's website,

http://www.yivo.org/

and the Anne Frank Foundation website.

http://www.annefrank.ch/

1 comment:

Susan Ginn said...

Hey Parker...did you know I've been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam? One of the most interesting places I've ever been. What year were the letters released? You said Feb 14 but didn't say which year? Last year or they're getting ready to be released. Very interesting story. Thanks for sharing.