Which Concentration Camp was Otto Frank sent to?
Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. Born into a banking family in Frankfurt am Main, Frank served with the German Army on the Western Front during World War I, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1918. He married Edith Holländer on 12 May 1925 in Frankfurt-am-Main, and their first daughter, Margot, was born on 16 February 1926, followed by Anne on 12 June 1929. After Anne Frank’s death was confirmed in the summer of 1945, her diary and papers were given to Frank by Miep Gies, who had rescued them from the ransacked hiding place. He left them unread for some time but eventually began transcribing them for his relatives, and then with the view to publishing extracts, and in 1947 the first Dutch edition of the diary was issued under the title ‘Het Achterhuis’ Frank married a former neighbour and fellow Auschwitz survivor, Elfriede Geiringer-Markovits (1905-1998), in Amsterdam on November 10, 1953, moved to Basel, Switzerland and devoted the las
