CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Otto Frank is best known as Anne’s father. Without him, Anne’s diary would not have been published, and without him, there would not have been an Anne Frank House . But of course, Otto Frank was much more than Anne’s father: you can read his story here.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anne called her father «Pim». During the time in the secret annex, he was the calm pole among the eight people in hiding. He was the only one of the eight to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Detailed explanation-3: -Otto Frank escaped Nazi Germany with his wife and two daughters soon after Hitler came to power in 1933. They lived a peaceful life in Amsterdam until May 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands. Otto, determined to leave Europe with his family, contacted an old college friend in the United States for help.

Detailed explanation-4: -Frank was born Annelies or Anneliese Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith (née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. The Franks were liberal Jews, and did not observe all of the customs and traditions of Judaism.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the First World War, Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, served in the Kaiser’s army as did over 100, 000 German Jews. His maternal family had roots in his native Frankfurt that stretched by centuries.