A priceless cache of letters from Anne Frank's father has been discovered in New York. The correspondence reveals just how desperately the Franks tried to escape from the Netherlands.
Anne Frank wrote one of the most poignant and memorable memoirs of the Holocaust. Now letters from her father Otto Frank have been discovered, revealing just how desperately he tried to save the family.
A file containing around 80 letters written by Anne Frank's father Otto Frank has been discovered in the archives of the New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Web site of Time magazine reported Thursday. The trove includes letters written by Otto Frank -- who survived the Holocaust -- between April 30, 1941 and Dec. 11, 1941, as well as letters from Frank's American relatives and a friend, Nathan Straus Jr., the son of the founder of Macy's department store....