CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reading the diary of Anne Frank, we get to know her mother Edith Frank only superficially. Who was Edith, what was she like as a mother, and what happened to her during the war? Edith Holländer was born in the German city of Aachen, close to the Dutch border, on 16 January 1900.

Detailed explanation-3: -In page 115, Anne says, “I often call her “Momsy.” Why does Anne call her mother Momsy? Anne calls her mother “Momsy” because she wants to call her something that sounds close to “Mom.” Mrs. Frank is not a perfect mother and if she called her mother “Mom, ” she would be saying that she’s perfect.

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.