THE ANNE FRANK STORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN HOLLAND
Anneliesse Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne and her older sister Margot (born February 6, 1926), were born in the post-World War 1 era and they, along with their parents, were German citizens under the laws of the Weimar Republic (1918-33).Otto, Anne's father, was born in 1889, in Frankfurt, Germany-where his family could trace their roots back to the 17th century. Edith Holl"nder Frank, Anne's mother, was born in Aachen in 1900. Against the background of the Wilhelmian Empire, they grew up in an era of fierce European nationalism and rivalry along with extraordinary cultural and technological achievements. In 1914, their lives, like millions of others throughout the world, were dramatically changed when World War I began. Otto Frank and one of his brothers were among the men who enlisted in the German Army to serve the German "fatherland." Adolf......
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