Emigration plans
Otto and Edith Frank look for ways of leaving Germany. In early March 1933 they reach a decision: through his brother-in-law Erich Elias (his sister Helene’s husband) Otto is given an opportunity to set up a company in the Netherlands.
Emigrating to the Netherlands
A new home in Amsterdam.
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'Criminals'
Looking back, Otto Frank writes in a letter after the war: “Because so many of my German countryman were turning into hordes of nationalistic, cruel, anti-Semitic criminals, I had to face the consequences, and though this did hurt me deeply, I realized that Germany was not the world and I left my country forever.”
Source: Cara Weiss Wilson, ‘Dear Cara: Letters from Otto Frank, p. 45.
Passport photo
On 10 March 1933, in a department store, Edith had a passport photo taken of herself with her daughters.