Life of Otto Frank

Mr. Frank is also known as, Otto Frank was born on May 12, 1889, In Frankfurt, am Main, Germany.

Otto was born into a liberal Jewish family, he had three siblings. An older brother, and a younger brother and sister. His father, Michael, ran a bank. Fran spent his summer studying art history at the University of Heidelberg after graduating from high school.

During summer frank worked at a local bank for a year. He also began studying economics. when a former classmate set up an internship for Frank at Macy's Department store in Manhattan, New York,  he jumped at the chance to gain business experience.

The Jewish went to the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands when they were caught in the annex.

The father of Anne Frank, whose diaries convey a message of stunning hope in the face of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II, died Tuesday at a hospital in Basel, Switzerland. The cause of death was not reported, but news agencies said he had experienced breathing difficulties for six months.