Otto Frank

On August 19, 1980, Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank and sole survivor of the secret annex, died at the age of 91. An excerpt from the article:

"The Holocaust
When Holland was invaded by Germany in 1940, Jews were no longer allowed to run their own businesses. Frank was forced to appoint his Dutch colleagues as the official owners of his companies.

In 1942, Margot received a letter demanding that she report to a work camp. As a result, Frank and his family went into hiding in a secret annex just above his office. The Franks, along with four other Jews, spent two years in hiding. During that time, Anne coped with her feelings by keeping a diary.

On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo raided the annex. The Frank family was arrested and sent to the Westerbork transit concentration camp, then to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne and Margot were later taken to Bergen-Belsen. After Auschwitz was liberated in 1945, Frank discovered that he was the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust.

Life After Loss
Months later, Frank's former secretary, Miep Gies, found Anne's diary in the abandoned annex and gave it to Otto. In 1947, he had the journal published under the title The Diary of a Young Girl.

Frank remarried, to fellow Jewish survivor Elfriede (Fritzi) Markovits, in 1953. The couple moved to Switzerland, where they would live out the remainder of their years together. Frank died in Basel, Switzerland, on August 19, 1980."