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Leni Elias - Frank

Leni Frank was Otto Frank's younger sister.

Person

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  • Helène Elias - Frank
  • Born on: Sept. 8, 1893
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: Oct. 2, 1986
  • Died in: Bazel, Zwitserland

Foto van Leni Frank, rond 1919.

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Helène Elias-Frank (Leni, Lunni) ) was the younger sister of Otto Frank.[1] She got engaged to Erich Elias on 28 November 1920. Among the many Gratülanten were Franz Kahn, Albert Dreher, Felix Uhry and Paul Stanfield.[2] On 16 March 1921 she was married in Frankfurt.[3] They had two sons, Stephan (1921-1980) and Bernd (Buddy) (1925-2015).[4]

Otto Frank and his family sent a card to Leni on 5 July 1942 (the day before they went into hiding), which indicated in cryptic terms that something was going on.[2]  Because of the business she was running at the time, Otto characterised his sister in 1945 as "ein gewaltiges Handelsfrauchen". [5]

Bron persoonsgegevens.[6] Addresses: Gundelfingerstrasse 139, Basel (1936).[7]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wikipedia: Helene Frank. Anne refers to her as Aunt Leni. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 19-30 June 1942, 2nd, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b  Fmiliearchief Anne Frank-Fonds (AFF), Bazel, AFF, Leni Frank, AFF_LeF_odoc_002: Gastenboek.
  3. ^ AFF, Bazel, Erich Elias, AFF_ErE_odoc_07: Formulier „Bürgerrechtsbureau Basel“, gestempeld 17 oktober 1941.
  4. ^ Mirjam Pressler & Gert Elias, Treasures from the attic : the extraordinary story of Anne Frank's family, New York, NY: Doubleday, 2011.
  5. ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_072: Otto Frank aan Erich Elias, 11 augustus 1945.
  6. ^ AFF, Erich Elias, AFF_ErE_odoc_07: Formulier „Bürgerrechtsbureau Basel“, gestempeld 17 oktober 1941; Mirjam Pressler, "Groeten en liefs aan allen". Het verhaal van de familie van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, p. 405.
  7. ^ AFF, Erich Elias, AFF_ErE_odoc_07: Vorberufung’ 10 februari 1936.  Herbstgasse 11, Bazel; AFF, Leni Frank, AFF_LeF_corr_05: Briefkaart.