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Buddy Elias

Buddy Elias was a first cousin of Anne and Margot Frank.

Person

  • Bernd Paul Eric Elias
  • Born on: June 2, 1925
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: March 16, 2015
  • Died in: Bazel, Zwitserland

Bernd Paul Eric Elias (Buddy) was the son of Leni Frank, a sister of Otto Frank, and first cousin of Anne and Margot.[1] Anne fantasised in her diary about a career as an ice dancer together with her cousin Buddy.[2] There are some photographs of Buddy from 1940-41, in which he is depicted as an 'ice clown'.[3] He became an actor in later years, and travelled the world with the 'Holiday on Ice' revue, among others.[4]

Source personal data.[5] Address: Herbstgasse 11, Basel (’41).[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Buddy Elias. For the life story of Buddy Elias, see: Mirjam Pressler & Gert Elias, Treasures from the attic : the extraordinary story of Anne Frank's family, New York, NY: Doubleday, 2011. Also see: Dineke Stam, "'I would have loved to go skating with her' : from a conversation with Buddy Elias, the cousin of Anne Frank", in: Anne Frank Magazine 2000, p. 4-9.
  2. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 1 October - 1 November 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. See also: Diary Version A, 19 - 30 June 1942.
  3. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, reg. code A_AFrank_III_055: ‘Blanco Monster Electro Huishoudboek 1937’, p. 41, 45.
  4. ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds (AFF), Bazel, Stephan Elias, AFF_StE_corr_03.
  5. a, b AFF, Erich Elias, AFF_ErE_odoc_07: Formulier ‘Bürgerrechtsbureau’, gestempeld 17 oktober 1941.