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Herbert August Frank

Herbert Frank was the youngest brother of Otto Frank.

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  • Herbert August Frank
  • Born on: Oct. 31, 1891
  • Born in: Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland
  • Died on: March 20, 1987

Herbert Frank, 1911

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Herbert Frank was the youngest brother of Otto Frank.[1] He married the American Hortense Rah Schott 1899-1982) on 12 April 1922. Hortense was born in Newport, Arkansas, as the daughter of a German businessman who had immigrated to the United States in 1879. Throughout her childhood, she traveled with her father to Europe several times and lived in Aachen at one point.[2] The marriage between Herbert and Hortense remained childless and was short-lived. She left Herbert in September 1930 and ignored a court order dated 31 March 1931 ordering her to return to the married state, after which the marriage was dissolved on 16 August 1932.[3] Hortense moved to Zurich and the Frank family never saw her again.[4]

In April 1932 Herbert was arrested for a transaction that violated the regulations for trading securities with foreign countries that had been in force since 1931. When he was released on 14 May 1932, he left for Paris.[5] He informed the court that he had suffered material and mental harm because of how long the case has dragged on.[6] 

During the war, Herbert ended up in the internment camp for Jewish and non-Jewish stateless refugees near the village of Gurs, at the foot of the Pyrenees,[7] but apparently he was not imprisoned there for long, because Anne writes in her diary that he turned up at the Elias family in Switzerland as early as October 1942.[1]

After the war he returned to Paris, to finally join his family again in Switzerland in 1955.[8]

Source personal data.[9]

Footnotes

  1. a, b Anne refers to him as Herbi. 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.
  2. ^ Informatie ontleend aan: United States Holocaust  Memorial Museum: Vulcanized fiber suitcase owned by a member of the Frank family; Carol Ann Lee, Anne Frank 1929-1945: het leven van een jong meisje: de definitieve biografie, Amsterdam: Balans, 2009, p. 49.
  3. ^ Mirjam Pressler, "Groeten en liefs aan allen". Het verhaal van de familie van Anne Frank, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2010, p. 128.
  4. ^ Lee, Anne Frank 1929-1945, p. 67.
  5. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: de biografie, 5e, geheel herz. druk, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013, p. 44-45.
  6. ^ "Die verschobene Million", Die Neueste Zeitung, 12 oktober 1932.
  7. ^ Wikipedia: Gurs internment camp.
  8. ^ Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (NIOD) (samenst.), De dagboeken van Anne Frank, 5e, verb. en uitgebr. dr., Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2001, p. 4.
  9. ^ Melissa Müller, Anne Frank: de biografie, p. 468.

 

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Foto van Otto Frank (rechts) met v.l.n.r. zijn broers Herbert en Robert en zus Helène, 1911

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