Paul Elias
Paul Elias was the brother of Erich Elias, a brother-in-law of Otto Frank.
Paul Elias was the brother of Erich Elias and the brother-in-law of Leni Elias-Frank (Otto Frank's sister). He was a salesman.[1] According to Anne, the Elias family hoped that Paul would join them in Basel.[2] He had been trying to obtain a Swiss visa since the spring of 1939, but had been repeatedly turned down. He was murdered in Auschwitz.
Otto Frank wrote on 14 september 1945 to his sister Leni that he had little hope of Paul's return, and that he had little trust in claims that many survivors had been found 'by those Russians'.[3]
Source personal data. (Died: Auschwitz, 1942).[4] Address: Zweibrücken.[4]
Footnotes
- ^ Familiearchief Anne Frank-Fonds, Bazel, Erich Elias, AFF_ErE_odoc_11: Erbschein Karl Otto Elias, 6 juni 1953.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 14 October 1942, 1st, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_072: Otto Frank aan Leni Elias-Frank, 14 september 1945.
- a, b Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945: Elias, Paul.