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Milly Stanfield

Milly Stanfield was a second cousin of Otto Frank.

Person

  • Milly Bernardine Stanfield
  • Born on: July 20, 1899
  • Born in: Londen, Engeland
  • Died on: Feb. 14, 2001
  • Died in: West Orange, NJ, USA

Milly Stanfield was a second cousin of Otto Frank.[1] Her mother was a cousin of Otto's mother, Alice Frank-Stern. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was the author of books including The Intermediate Cellist.[2]

Otto Frank wrote to her on 18 March 1945 from Katowice. At that time he was on his way from Auschwitz to Amsterdam.[3] They continued to correspond until his death. Afterwards Milly Stanfield corresponded with Otto's widow Fritzi.[3]

She was a cellist and taught music. She also worked as the secretary of the famous cellist Pablo Casals. Milly Stanfield lived in the United States from 1967 on, and in 1972 she became an American citizen.[2]

Source personal data.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 8 May 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. a, b, c Paid Notice: Deaths, Stanfield, Milly B., The New York Times, 4 March 2001.
  3. a, b Anne Frank Stichting, Anne Frank Collectie, Otto Frank Archief, reg. code OFA_071.