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Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation , she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .
Reading the diary of Anne Frank, we get to know her mother Edith Frank only superficially. Who was Edith, what was she like as a mother, and what happened to her during the war?
Edith Frank attended the evangelical Viktoriaschule in Aachen, where education in the Jewish religion was given by Dr Heinrich Jaulus. [1] According to Otto Frank, Edith grew up in a family with a kosher household, but the family was not Orthodox. [2]
Edith Frank kept a baby picture book after the birth of her youngest daughter, in which she noted all sorts of things about Anne's health, appetite and growth. She continued to do this until 3 September 1929. After that, the book only functioned as a photo album. [1]
Dec 5, 2008 · About Edith. Edith Hollander was born on 16 January 1900 in the German city of Aachen. Her family were prominent in the Jewish community and had emigrated to Germany from...
Died in: Auschwitz-Birkenau. Edith Frank-Holländer, Amsterdam, mei 1935 of 1936. Polyfoto. Fotocollectie: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam. Publiek domein. According to her birth certificate, Edith Holländer was born on 16 January 1900 in Aachen, at Heinrichsallee 50. She was a daughter of Abraham Holländer and Rosalie Holländer-Stern.
Jun 8, 2024 · Anne Frank (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover) was a Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature.
Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Aug 3, 2021 · Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of her experiences. Anne and her family went into hiding for two years to avoid Nazi persecution. Her documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl.
Otto Frank came from an upper-middle-class German-Jewish family in Frankfurt, and Edith, also Jewish, was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist from Aachen. While living in Germany, the Frank family saw the effects of the Great Depression firsthand, including rampant inflation and soaring unemployment.
