#otto frank

[girlactionfigure]

In this photo is Audrey Hepburn with Otto Frank, Anne’s father. Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929. The actress is best known for such films as Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but did you know that she turned down playing the role of Anne Frank? Here’s why.

What many may not know about Hepburn is that as a teenager she helped the Dutch resistance in WWII. Both Hepburn and Frank were born in 1929. The two never met but Hepburn felt close to the young diarist, and lived 60 miles apart from each other. While Hepburn was not Jewish, she spent several years of the war in a cellar to use as a bomb shelter and even faced near starvation. During this time she managed to arrange illegal dance performances to support local families who were hiding Jews.

After the war, Otto reached out to Hepburn asking if she would play the role of his daughter for the movie adaptation of the well-known diary. Hepburn felt unable to play the part, having had such a traumatic experience during the war, it would be too difficult. She said of Frank: “It’s a little bit as if this had happened to my sister . . . in a way she was my soul sister.”

Photo: Luca Dotti

Humans of Judaism

[fran-ryougi]

January 27th, 2024 - Holocaust Memorial

I had problems to return to read about holocaust and Anne, after what is happened here on tumblr. But today, like every year, I must do something for make others remember.

I will share an old article that I wrote about Rywka Lipszyc, another Jewish girl who wrote a diary.

The article is in Italian but you can use Google translate or another translator.

[popclture]

Otto Frank visits the attic where the Frank family hid from the Germans troops during World War II (1960)

The family was discovered in August 1944, after spending 761 days in hiding. It is widely believed they were betrayed by someone familiar with their hiding place, though the identity of the betrayer remains unknown. The entrance to their secret annex was concealed behind a movable bookcase but how the Nazis were alerted to or uncovered the hidden door is still unclear.

Following their arrest, Otto’s daughters, Anne and Margot, were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In March 1945, both tragically succumbed to typhus during a massive outbreak, just weeks before British forces liberated the camp. Anne was 15 years old and Margot was 19. They were buried in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen and their remains were never individually identified.

Otto Frank and his wife, Edith, were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious concentration camps. Edith died of starvation in January 1945, only weeks before the camp was liberated by Soviet troops. Otto survived and dedicated his life to preserving Anne’s diary, ensuring her voice and story would reach the world.

Otto Frank was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He passed away in 1980 at the age of 91. While he is buried in Switzerland, where he settled after the war, Edith’s body was never recovered, as she perished in Auschwitz.

[direwolfrules]

Y’all, go watch A Small Light. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking and I’m crying as I type this out.

A Small Light is the story of Miep Gies, Otto Frank’s secretary who helped hide the residents of the Secret Annex, and her husband Jan, who was a member of the Dutch resistance. There’s suspense, and drama, and moments of joy, all ultimately leading to the heartbreak you know is coming.

It’s eight episodes people, I know colleges are going on break right now so y’all have time.

I just…this show deserves all the awards. Emmy sweep, thy name is A Small Light. The usage of light and color, music, I just…God.

The acting is phenomenal. Liev Schrieber’s portrayal of Otto Frank throughout the series, especially after the homecoming, it was amazing. I was bawling. Bawling.

This show hurt to watch. And that’s good, because it should. These were real people, and we should weep for them, we should remember them.

[wendyliddel]

Watching A Small Light really brings back feelings from the first time I read Anne’s diary.

Like, I think I knew that Anne was killed, but I don’t think I knew the fates of the other residents of the annex.

Reading the epilogue and finding out that all of the residents except for Otto were killed was definitely a gut punch.

I have read the diary multiple times since then, and I have also read Meip’s biography, but watching this show still hit hard.

[wanderingmadscientist]

In honor of today being the day the End of Evangelion was released, I am sharing a source sheet I made for a dvar torah about evangelion.

[vanessafangirl13]

Happy birthday to Anne Frank 🎉🎊 a symbol of hope and human rights of the 20th century

And the writer of her diary explaining her life during the most tragic moment

Though her life was cut short at 15 years old during the Holocaust, she's still remembered as one of the most celebrated writers of all time, published after the war by her father Otto Frank, Her story would continue for many generations to come

[yoursannefrank]

Otto Frank inaugurating the Statue of Anne Frank, Amsterdam 1977

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[a-contemplative-soul]

This is a really unique and valuable interview, Anne Frank's diary is one of the most unforgettable stories ever written and having her father saying how much impact it left around the world after it was published is just a proof of how moving it was.

Channel: BBC Archive

Video: 1976 OTTO FRANK on the Diary of Anne Frank | Blue Peter | Children's Television | BBC Archive

Year: 1976

[dragoneyes618]

"One of the first Americans to discover Anne Frank's diary was Meyer Levin, an American-Jewish novelist, who helped arrange for its English publication. Levin also procured from Otto Frank the right to adapt the diary as a play. Although the script Levin produced was extremely faithful to Anne Frank's original diaries, Lillian Hellman, one of the foremost playwrights of the period, told Otto Frank that Levin's script was unactable. Hellman, a pro-Stalinist, used her considerable influence to have The Diary of Anne Frank assigned to friends, with whom she worked on the script. It was this version, and not Levin's, that was subsequently produced. In the final edition of the new script, Anne Frank's statement that Judaism and its ideals were the root cause of Nazi antisemitism was eliminated. Instead, words were put into the actress's mouth that Anne had never written but which reflected the worldview of the play's writers: "We are not the only people that have had to suffer...sometimes one race, sometimes another." 

- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, page 408

[girlactionfigure]

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 26 of the 50 book challenge. The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop Van Wijk- Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn. The authors were mainly writing about Bep Voskuijl who was one of the helpers for the Secret Annex but they also talked about the other helpers, plus Anne, Margot, Edith and Otto Frank and some about the other family and the dentist who were hidden in the building. It’s a very good book and one of Bep’s sisters was involved with Nazis during the war and may have been the one who turned them in, but nobody knows for certain who are still alive. It’s a really good book. Joop is the youngest son of Bep born in 1949. If you’re interested at all in the Frank family or read Anne’s diary, you may like this book.

[sparklytimemachineflower]

So my assignment was to write two 20 page pamphlets and create a cover for them. This one's for Anne Frank, how'd I do?

Also if anyone has a cool name idea, I'm all ears.

[andrewisdoing]

Late Night Thoughts on 8/6/2023

It’s wild to think that when I am reading about so many lives lived non-fiction or otherwise, I feel like there is so much life I haven’t lived yet, even at 29. This isn’t to say that I haven’t lived or been anywhere emotionally or physically but there are times when I feel like these people had direction in their lives. Some people lived for resistance, some for survival or both. What am I living for?

I know how this sounds. I should feel so lucky that I haven’t lived during WWII or had to make the sacrifices and risks that Otto Frank or Miep Gies had to make. I should be feeling so lucky that I didn’t have to live in hiding and have no choice but to free my mind with only my words and diary as my weaponry, like Anne.

Sometimes I just wonder what am I sacrificing in my own life? Am I living for others? Granted, I have sacrificed certain parts of myself when I raised my sisters with our mother gone, but I lived (still fighting) through that personal war with the help of family, strangers and friends. I sometimes wonder what it would take to live with that spirit alone and in the face of certain death and suffering.

Even as I read of the treatment of gay men in the Holocaust, I can’t fathom living in a world where the same flourishing atmosphere you live in crumbles and disappears into camps that individually serve you certain death on a platter. No matter how many times I read and see these past atrocities, I constantly feel so confused and baffled at the hatred that resulted in the deaths of so many human beings. The accounts are so hard to digest but here I am, drawn in and constantly in revery, disgust and awe of these stories every time.

I don’t want to forget these “dark” things that have happened and ARE happening to our humanity on earth. I don’t. I so desperately want to understand why we allow suffering and pain to be inflicted on those who are different. I truly want to fathom what drives hate into a person and makes them look at someone like me and want to kill me. It’s important to me.

It’s more than being “good” or “woke.” It’s about being the home that people need. It’s about being that ear and protection for someone who is ostracized. I just want to be the “someone” that is an emotional shelter for others.

[dirjoh-blog]

My letter to Otto Frank

Dear Mr. Otto Frank, I write this letter with the humility and deep respect that one father extends to another, though no words can ever truly capture the weight of what you have endured. As a father of three children myself, I can only begin to imagine the depth of love, worry, and hope you must have carried through those years, even as the world around you fell apart. You faced unthinkable…

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

OTTO FRANK

12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980

ANNE FRANK’S FATHER

            Otto Frank was a German businessman who was married to Edith and was the father of Margot and Anne Frank. He served in the German Army in World War I.

            When the Nazis gained power in Germany, Otto moved to Amsterdam to work in a company that sold spices. The Nazis forced him to give up his business in 1940 and he handed it over to non-Jews. He attempted to get visas for his family to immigrate to the US or Cuba but was unsuccessful. Frank, 53, hid his family in an attic in July 1942 in a hidden apartment above his business; they were joined by four others. Frank’s colleagues help them whilst in hiding; the family were in hiding for two years until they were discovered in August 1944. It is unknown who dobbed the group in to the SS.

            The group were imprisoned in Amsterdam and was then sent to Westerbork and then to Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, Frank was separated from his wife and children and never got to see them again. He was sent to the men’s barracks and was in the sick barracks when the Soviet troops liberated the camp in 1945.

            He wrote to his mother who had fled to Switzerland, and returned to the Netherlands to find his family and friends. Frank learned he was the only survivor of those who hid in the attic. Edith died of starvation and disease in Auschwitz in 1945. His daughters were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and died in 1944 from typhus. One of the helpers found Anne Frank’s diary and papers and gave them to Frank and her diary was published in 1946 (English in 1952) which became a movie.

            Frank remarried in 1953 and moved to Amsterdam and then to Switzerland. To preserve the attic and building that they hid in, Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation in 1957 which opened to the public as a museum in 1960. Frank died aged 91, in 1980 of lung cancer.  

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