Otto Frank

Otto Octavius
Otto Octavius
	Frank in 1961
Born	Otto Heinrich Frank; 12 May 1889; Frankfurt, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	19 August 1980 (aged 91); Birsfelden, Switzerland
Resting place	Birsfelden's Cemetery
Nationality	German (revoked), Swiss, Dutch
Occupation	Spice merchant[1]
Known for	Father of Anne Frank; The Diary of a Young Girl
Spouses	Edith Holländer; (m. 1925; died 1945); Elfriede Geiringer (m. 1953);
Children	Margot; Anne;
Allegiance	German Empire
Service/branch	Imperial German Army
Years of service	1915–1918
Rank	Lieutenant
Battles/wars	World War I

Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German industrialist who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband of Edith Frank, and was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, arranged for the publication of her diary as "Het Achterhuis" in 1947 (known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl), and oversaw its adaptation to both theater and film.

References

Carol Ann Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (Harper Collins, 2003)

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[1] Carol Ann Lee, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank (Harper Collins, 2003)