The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
By Carol Ann LeeIn this shocking and definitive new biography, Carol Ann Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Probing this startling act of treachery, Lee brings to light never-before-documented information about Anne's father, Otto Frank, and the individual who would claim responsibility -- and their terrifying and complicated relationship that continued until the day Frank died.
With The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, Carol Ann Lee presents an astonishing and moving portrait of a man whose life, both charmed and cursed, was interwoven with one of the most momentous events of the last century as the father of Anne Frank. Based on impeccable research into rare archives and filled with excerpts from the secret journal that he kept from the day of his liberation from Auschwitz until his return to the secret annex in 1945, this landmark biography explores every facet of Frank's life. The publication of Anne Frank's diary turned this quietly heroic man into a legend, but until now, apart from a few basic facts, almost nothing has been written about Otto Frank's own extraordinary life.
The father of the most famous young girl of the twentieth century, Otto Frank was born a month before Adolf Hitler, and grew up in a wealthy German Jewish household. In World War I, he fought for Germany -- which he believed to be his homeland -- as an officer in the trenches of the Somme. Lee documents these privileged early years, when Frank and his family were models of wholly assembled European Jewry. She also reveals the full story behind Frank's first cruelly thwarted love affair, as well as the truth about his subsequent arranged marriage to Anne's mother.
After struggling to establish a business in Amsterdam, Frank and his family spent happy years together before the war. Then came their period in hiding, their eventual betrayal, and their internment in the death camps of Poland and Germany. For the first time, Frank's experiences during and after Auschwitz -- and during his return to Amsterdam, where, wholly destitute, he lost everything "except life" -- are told in full. The subsequent delivery of his daughter's diary, and the publishing phenomenon that ensued, helped him begin to recover.
Deeply moving and powerfully honest, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank authoritatively brings into focus a little-understood man whose story illuminates some of the most harrowing and memorable events of the last century.
Buy The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee at Attic books in Nairobi Kenya.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 411 pages
- English
- 0060520825
- 9780060520823
About Carol Ann Lee
carol ann lee was Read More about Carol Ann Lee
More Books By Carol Ann Lee
People who bought this also bought
Retiring Right, Third Edition: Planning for a Successful Retirement
Used Book
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
New Book
The Complete Sleep Guide For Contented Babies and Toddlers book by Gina Ford
New Book
Webster's Geographical Dictionary: A Dictionary Of Names Of Places with Geographical And Historical Information And Pronunciations
Used Book
Mr. Romance's Book of Love : Passionate Secrets of America's Greatest Lovers
Used Book
The Courage To Be Disliked : How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
New Book
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
New Book
The Seventh Day of Christmas : A Story of the End Times
Used Book
Reader's Digest Cooking Smart for a Healthy Heart (Delicious Recipes for Life)
Used Book
The Daily Stoic Journal : 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
New Book
Do It Right the First Time : What Every Homeowner Needs to Know Before the Work Begins
Used Book
Building the Mosaic Encouragement for the Relief Worker
Used Book