Holocaust Victim. She was the mother of Anne Frank, whose World War II diary has been read internationally. Born in Aachen, Germany, to Jewish parents Abraham Holländer and Rosa Stern, she had three siblings: Walter, Julius, and Rosa. In 1924, she met Otto Frank and they were married on May 12, 1925 in Aachen's synagogue. Their first daughter, Margot, was born in 1926 and their second daughter, Anne, was born in 1929. With the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party with its attendant antisemitism, the Frank family escaped Germany to Amsterdam in 1933. For several years, the family lived comfortably. Then in July of 1942, her oldest daughter, Margot, received a call-up notice for work detail in one of the Nazi camps. The Frank family quickly moved into a location above Otto Frank's office: 263 Prinsengracht. For two years, the Frank family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer hid while isolated from the rest of the world. Sources remember her as a "quiet" woman who often quarreled with her younger daughter. On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo, raided the Secret Annex being told about it by an unknown informant. Edith spent three days imprisoned in Amstelveenweg. She was then transported to Westerbork Transit Camp. On September 3, 1944, Edith Frank was transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the Nazi's largest camp for eliminating the Jewish population. She was selected for the gas chambers on October 30, 1944, but she and a friend managed to escape to another section of the camp. She died twenty days before Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Red Army.
Holocaust Victim. She was the mother of Anne Frank, whose World War II diary has been read internationally. Born in Aachen, Germany, to Jewish parents Abraham Holländer and Rosa Stern, she had three siblings: Walter, Julius, and Rosa. In 1924, she met Otto Frank and they were married on May 12, 1925 in Aachen's synagogue. Their first daughter, Margot, was born in 1926 and their second daughter, Anne, was born in 1929. With the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party with its attendant antisemitism, the Frank family escaped Germany to Amsterdam in 1933. For several years, the family lived comfortably. Then in July of 1942, her oldest daughter, Margot, received a call-up notice for work detail in one of the Nazi camps. The Frank family quickly moved into a location above Otto Frank's office: 263 Prinsengracht. For two years, the Frank family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer hid while isolated from the rest of the world. Sources remember her as a "quiet" woman who often quarreled with her younger daughter. On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo, raided the Secret Annex being told about it by an unknown informant. Edith spent three days imprisoned in Amstelveenweg. She was then transported to Westerbork Transit Camp. On September 3, 1944, Edith Frank was transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the Nazi's largest camp for eliminating the Jewish population. She was selected for the gas chambers on October 30, 1944, but she and a friend managed to escape to another section of the camp. She died twenty days before Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Red Army.
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