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Leisure activities, Edith Frank

Edith Frank enjoyed listening to classical music and loved to read.

Subject

Little is known about Edith Frank-Höllander's hobbies and leisure activities. A number of sources do reveal that she played tennis, listened to classical music and read a lot. For example, there is a photo of Edith Frank-Höllander with four other girls and a man in tennis clothes, holding tennis rackets.[1]

She owned a number of gramophone records with classical music. The records are attributed to Edith Frank-Holländer because they are described in her handwriting.[2] Many of Edith's books also survived.

Anne wrote in her diary in May 1944 that her mother read everything except detective novels.[3] Otto Frank wrote to his family in a letter dated 19 August 1945: 'Edith u Margot waren beide starke Leser.'[4] Edith is also known to have been a visitor to the Deutsche Leihbibliothek on Biesboschstraat in the late 1930s.

Footnotes

  1. ^  Anne Frank Stichting (AFS), Anne Frank Collectie (AFC), reg. code A_familieledenFrank_III_089; datum en plaats onbekend.
  2. ^ De gramofoonplaten bevinden zich in het privébezit van de familie Elias.
  3. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 16-19 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ AFS, AFC, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_071: Otto Frank aan zijn familie, 19 augustus 1945.