17 Facts About Edith Frank

Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot.

Edith Frank's father, Abraham Hollander was a successful businessman in industrial equipment who was active in the Aachen Jewish community together with Edith's mother, Rosa Hollander.

Edith Frank had two older brothers, Julius and Walter, and an older sister, Bettina.

Nevertheless, Edith Frank attended the Evangelical Higher Girls' School and passed her school-leaving exams in 1916.

Edith Frank met Otto Frank in 1924 and they married on his 36th birthday, 12 May 1925, at Aachen's synagogue.

Edith Frank's daughters played almost every day in the garden with the children in the neighborhood.

Edith Frank remained in contact with her family and friends in Germany, but made new friends in Amsterdam, most of them fellow German refugees.

Edith Frank became involved in Amsterdam's Liberal Jewish community, and attended synagogue with her oldest daughter, Margot, on a regular basis.

Edith Frank was an open-minded woman who educated her daughters in a modern way.

Edith's children were removed from their schools, and her husband Otto Frank was forced by the Germans to give up his companies Opekta and Pectacon.

Edith Frank was selected for the gas chambers, and her daughters were transported to Bergen-Belsen.

Edith Frank escaped with a friend to another section of the camp, where she remained through the winter.

Edith Frank became very ill and was taken to the sick barracks, where she died of weakness and disease on 6 January 1945, three weeks before the Red Army liberated the camp and ten days before her 45th birthday.

Otto Edith Frank was the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust and returned to Amsterdam in June 1945.

Edith Frank had saved parts of them, just like the other female secretary, Bep Voskuijl.

When Otto Edith Frank decided to edit his daughter's diary for publication, he was sure that his wife had come in for particular criticism because of her often difficult relationship with Anne, and he deleted some of the more heated comments out of respect for his wife and other residents of the Secret Annex.

In 1968, Otto Edith Frank wrote in his `memoirs to Anne' about his wife: she truly was an excellent mother, who put her children above all else.