Nazi Torture of Anne Frank's father Otto Frank in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during WW2 - part 2 скачать в хорошем качестве

Nazi Torture of Anne Frank's father Otto Frank in Auschwitz Concentration Camp during WW2 - part 2

Horrible Nazi Torture of Otto Frank in Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Anne Frank House - Part 2. After spending 762 long days in the Secret Annex and 1 month in Westerbork transit camp, the 8 people from the Secret Annex were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the 3rd of September 1944. Their train was the last one to leave Westerbork for this extermination camp located in Nazi-occupied Poland. While Otto ended up in a camp for men, his wife and daughters were sent to the labor camp for women. Margot, chosen for slave labor, was forced to cut sods or carry stones. At Auschwitz, Edith, Margot and Anne stayed together and depended on each other, more than ever before. Survivors remembered Edith sharing her own small amount of bread with her 2 daughters. When Margot and Anne were temporarily isolated in a separate barracks because they suffered from scabies, Edith and two fellow prisoners dug a hole to pass them some extra food. After the separation on the Auschwitz-Birkenau platform, Otto stayed together with the men from the Secret Annex. When at one point, Otto lost hope after he had been beaten, his fellow inmates, with the help of a Dutch doctor, made sure that he was admitted to the sick barracks. At the end of October 1944, Margot and Anne were put on a transport to the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Edith stayed behind at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. However, Otto stayed behind in the sick barracks. On the 27th of January 1945, when the Soviet troops entered Auschwitz, Otto Frank was liberated. On the way back to the Netherlands he found out about the death of his wife Edith. Edith Frank died of starvation and disease in the sick barracks of Auschwitz. Otto Frank returned to the liberated Netherlands on the 3rd of June 1945 - 9 days before what would have been Anne’s 16th birthday. To his great relief, the helpers of the Secret Annex had all survived the war. However, all hope was lost one month later when Otto learned about the death of his daughters. It was revealed that they may have died as early as February. Because we do not know the exact date of Margot’s death, she was either 18 or 19 years old at the time. Her birthday was the same month that she died. Anne was 15. 4 other people from the Secret Annex - Peter, Hermann and Auguste Van Pels as well as Fritz Pfeffer also perished. In Anne’s diary, Otto also read about Anne’s dreams to become a writer and journalist and her intention to publish a novel about their life in the Secret Annex after the war would be over. He wanted to have her diary published but so soon after the war, people wanted to look forward rather than back. Eventually, Otto found a publisher and first 3,000 copies of Anne’s book - “Secret Annex” - were published in 1947. Since then, the book has been translated into over 70 languages. People all over the world were introduced to Anne's story and in 1960, the hiding place which for 2 years became the home to 8 people who tried to survive the atrocities of the criminal Nazi regime, became a museum: the Anne Frank House. By setting up the organisation in 1957 and opening up the hiding place in 1960, Otto Frank realised his educational mission plans. Otto‘s revenge was not only that he survived and lectured about the hardship he endured during the Holocaust, but that his legacy and bravery will go on through the Anne Frank House with which he was involved until his death. Today, you can even visit the house in which Margot and Anne spent 761 long days. In spite of the loyalty of his friends and the success of the diary in the Netherlands, Otto felt that he would forever associate Amsterdam with his pain and loss. Thus, in 1952, he moved to Basel, Switzerland, and one year later in Amsterdam, he remarried to Fritzi Geiringer. Fritzi already had a daughter, Eva, who just like Anne, was born in 1929. As with Otto, both Fritzi and Eva were the Holocaust survivors. Otto Frank was 91 years old when he passed away on the 19th of August 1980. Until the end of his life, Otto remained closely involved with the Anne Frank House, which was founded to preserve Prinsengracht 263 and its Secret annex. There were many tears shed for Otto Frank. Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel. We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. ► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips:    / @worldhistoryvideos   #worldwar2 #annefrank #nazigermany