The Horn Book Magazine, November 1st, 1994
In 1933 Otto Frank, the second son in a banking family, emigrated from Germany to Holland. He set up a business in Amsterdam selling pectin to housewives; eventually the business diversified into chemical and pharmaceutical products and herbs, particularly those used in the manufacture of sausages. He and his wife and two daughters lived in a modern apartment and had a wide circle of acquaintances, non-Jewish as well as Jewish, of whom many of the latter were members of the liberal Jewish community. On June 12, 1942, the younger daughter, Anne(liese), made the first entry in a diary which sh...
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