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Edith Frank
EdithFrank
Historical Figure
Nationality: Germany (born in Prussia), later the Netherlands, then stateless
Year of Birth: 1900
Year of Death: 1945
Cause of Death: Starvation while in a concentration camp (World War II)
Religion: Judaism
Occupation: Housewife
Spouse: Otto Frank
Children: Margot and Anne (daughters)
Fictional Appearances:
"The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging"
POD: July, 1944
Type of Appearance: Posthumous reference
Nationality: Switzerland (after 1945)
Date of Death: Unrevealed

Edith Frank (née Holländer; 16 January 1900 – 6 January 1945) was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank. Edith, her husband Otto, and their daughters Anne and Margot, as well as four other Jewish people were hidden in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, until the whole group was betrayed. Edith and her daughters were sent to Auschwitz. Edith starved to death twenty days before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Her daughters both died a few weeks later.

Edith Frank in "The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging"[]

Edith Frank, her family, and four fellow Jews were able to hide for the duration of World War II, emerging from their hiding place, the Secret Annexe, only after the Netherlands were liberated in 1945. The eight people quickly dispersed. Edith and her husband moved to Switzerland.

In 2013, Edith's daughter Anne, now elderly and living in the Hebrew Home for the Aging in San Fernando, shared some of her experiences with the eighth-grade history class from nearby Junipero Middle School. She described her mother as a "cold fish."

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