THE TIMES: Newly discovered letters reveal the increasingly desperate efforts by Anne Frank’s father to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam before they were forced into hiding in the attic where the teenage girl wrote her famous diary.
Otto Frank sought the help of a rich friend from the family that founded Macy’s department store in New York in an attempt to obtain a US visa.
“I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see USA is the only country we could go to,” he wrote to his friend Nathan Straus Jr in New York on April 30, 1941.
“Perhaps you remember that we have two girls. It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance,” he added. Anne Frank’s doomed American dream by James Bone in New York
Mark Alexander
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