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  • Anne and Margot, 1933

    While their parents are busy arranging the family's emigration to Holland, Anne and Margot spend the summer of 1933 with Grandmother Holländer in Aachen.

    Anne and Margot, 1933

  • Portrait Photos of Anne Frank

    Otto and Edith Frank have passport photos of their daughters taken every year.

    Portrait Photos of Anne Frank

  • Portrait Photos of Margot Frank

    Portrait Photos of Margot Frank

  • Otto Frank goes to Amsterdam

    Buddy Elias is one of Anne's cousins. His father Erich Elias gave Otto Frank work in Amsterdam.

    Otto Frank goes to Amsterdam
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A New Start

“In the Netherlands, after those experiences in Nazi Germany, it was as if our life was restored to us. In those days it was possible for us to start over and to feel free.”

Otto Frank

Otto Frank goes to the Netherlands in the summer of 1933. He has the opportunity to set up a company in Amsterdam that sells Opekta. This is a product used by housewives to prepare home-made jam. During that period, Anne and Margot stay with Grandmother Holländer who lives in Aachen Germany. Their mother commutes to and from Amsterdam to find the family a place to live there.

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