Frank quickly headed home for the funeral. Determined to forge ahead in his career, Frank soon returned to the states and spent the next two years working there—first at Macy's and later at a bank. In , Frank went home to Germany and took a job with a company that fabricated window frames. During World War I, he worked for a manufacturer of horseshoes for the Germany military. In , however, Frank was conscripted into the German army and sent to the Western Front, where he achieved the rank of lieutenant.
When the war ended, Frank took over the family bank, which his younger brother had been managing poorly. Years later, in , Frank would further exhibit his business acumen by establishing the Opekta Company and appointing himself its director. Two years later, he would set up a second company, Pectacon. Edith gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Margot, on February 16, In , Otto relocated the family to Holland to avoid the dangers of Germany once Adolf Hitler had risen to power.
When Holland was invaded by Germany in , Jews were no longer allowed to run their own businesses. Frank was forced to appoint his Dutch colleagues as the official owners of his companies. In , Margot received a letter demanding that she report to a work camp. As a result, Frank and his family went into hiding in a secret annex just above his office. The Franks, along with four other Jews, spent two years in hiding.
During that time, Anne coped with her feelings by keeping a diary. On August 4, , the Gestapo raided the annex. The Frank family was arrested and sent to the Westerbork transit concentration camp, then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Margot Frank also kept a diary, but it was never found. Otto Frank knew that Anne wanted to become an author or journalist, and had hoped her wartime writings would one day be published. Anne had even been inspired to edit her diary for posterity after hearing a March radio broadcast from an exiled Dutch government official who urged the Dutch people to keep journals and letters that would help provide a record of what life was like under the Nazis.
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And what your potential is! But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Now, officials from the Anne Frank House in A car pulled up outside a narrow brick building in central Amsterdam, around 10 a. High up in the Annex of Prinsengracht, eight Jews had been hiding since Members of the Gestapo emerged from the car and made their way inside, where they arrested On July 18, , Otto Frank learned the awful truth.
He already knew that his wife, unlike himself, had perished inside the walls of Auschwitz, and now survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp returned to Amsterdam with the news that his two teenaged daughters, Margot On August 4, , police in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam raided a warehouse and arrested eight Jews who were hiding in an annex disguised behind a bookcase. Among those captured was Anne Frank, a year-old schoolgirl who had spent over two years living in the cramped safehouse with Anne Hutchinson was an influential Puritan spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who challenged the male-dominated religious authorities of the time.
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Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets CSS if you are able to do so. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. Find out more about page archiving. Before the Secret Annex Otto studied economics, but gave it up to work in a bank. After the Secret Annex After the annex was raided, the occupants were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Iain on Otto "Otto was idolised and adored by Anne and the challenge was to create a three dimensional person who went through many emotions and suffered fears and doubts that he rarely showed and wasn't perceived by his youngest daughter.
Annex Occupants and Helpers Anne Frank. Margot Frank. Edith Frank. Peter van Daan.
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