As a father of three children, although they are all supposedly adults now, I often have nightmares and worries about them. I lie awake at night when they are out with friends. When they leave the house, there are a million worst-case scenarios that haunt my brain. There is some news you hope as a parent will have to hear.
Otto Frank, the father of Anne and Margot, heard that news under circumstances that none of us could fathom.
‘July 19, 1945: Otto Frank’s months-long search for his daughters Anne and Margot has come to an end. He has heard that his children are dead, murdered in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
The lousy news prompts helper Miep Goes to hand over Anne’s diary, which she had kept, to Otto. Gies had hoped that she could return the notebooks to Anne herself. “I would have liked to see her face when she saw that they had been saved.”
Otto Frank has not yet opened the diary. Too painful.
Since he was liberated in Auschwitz last January, Frank has been looking for his family. He soon learned that his wife Edith died of exhaustion just before the liberation of the extermination camp. He had no idea about the fate of his daughters all those months. They are said to have left Auschwitz in the autumn of 1944 and been transferred to another camp. The search for his daughters kept him going.
In recent weeks, he has visited everyone in Amsterdam who might know something. He went to acquaintances, old neighbors, and camp survivors. Frank regularly checked the Red Cross death lists. And then he saw their names on the list—Annelies Marie Frank and Margot Betti Frank—with a cross behind them. And that could only mean one thing.
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