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Jun 24, 2024 · "I only learnt to know her really through her diary," Otto Frank confessed to Blue Peter's Lesley Judd, as he showed her the personal writings of his beloved late daughter Anne.
Apr 24, 2024 · Lesley Judd meets Anne Frank's father Otto, who explains how his daughter's famous diary survived to become a best-seller. From the BBC Archive. Originally broadcast on 22 March 1979.
Apr 24, 2024 · Lesley Judd meets Anne Frank's father Otto, who explains how his daughter's famous diary survived to become a best-seller. From the BBC Archive. Originally broadcast on 22 March 1979.
Their author, 15-year-old Anne Frank, had died of typhus in a German concentration camp a few months earlier, in spring 1945. Now Otto, her father, was reading words he had never imagined his daughter could write. As he read, he came to an unnerving conclusion: he had never really known her.
Anne worried that her parents might not agree and felt that they should inform her father. At first, Otto did not seem to object, but later, he changed his mind and said that he did not want ‘that Knutscherei' (that cuddling). Anne was upset, she felt that her father should trust her.
Oct 25, 2021 · Anne Frank's diary wouldn't have been made public if it weren't for her father Otto. Of everyone who hid alongside Anne, her father was the only one to survive.
- Jean Mendoza
‘This is the legacy of your daughter Anne,’ helper Miep Gies told Otto Frank when she gave him Anne’s diary documents. Otto had just learned that his daughters Margot and Anne had died of spotted typhus in Bergen-Belsen. At first, Otto could not bear to read Anne's texts.
