Primary Sources: The Holocaust: Frank, Otto

The following documents were among those discovered in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research archives. They reveal the efforts of Otto Frank, father of renowned diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank, to get his family out of Holland.

After returning from Auschwitz, Otto Frank is confronted with Anne's diary. The film tells the story of what he went through, how the loss of his family scarred his life, how he dealt with the dilemmas that the publication of the diary brought upon him, and how he made a memorial of his daughter's legacy and became the father figure for thousands of young readers worldwide.