The Frank Family That Survived

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Gordon F Sander, John Keegan

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Arrow Books Ltd
01 August 2005

Biography: general; European history; The Holocaust; Second World War

'A remarkable wartime story' Mail on Sunday

'A major contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in all its complexity.' John Keegan in his Introduction.

The inspiring story of a German-Jewish family named Frank which, like Anne Frank's family and 25,000 other Dutch and other 'stateless' Jews, 'dived under' in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942 - but miraculously survived. Told by the grandson of the head of the family, this is the gripping odyssey of the other Frank family- from childhood in an assimilated German-Jewish family at Breitenheim, through the deceptively good life of Berlin in the 1920s, to the rise of Hitler and their flight to apparently safe Holland, the nightmarish ordeal of their thousand day long 'submersion' in a small apartment in The Hague, and the joy and pain of liberation and their final journey to America, the same route Anne Frank might have taken had she not been betrayed. Based on personal testaments, records and family interviews, the book describes their life behind closed curtains in constant fear of discovery. In 1945, after many adventures and appalling vicissitudes, they finally emerged to face the uncertainties of postwar Holland and the promise of the New World.

By: Gordon F Sander
Introduction by: John Keegan
Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780099443292
ISBN 10: 0099443295
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 August 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gordon F. Sander is an American journalist and historian who was until recently based in London, where he contributed to a variety of papers, including the Financial Times, as well as BBC Radio 4, for which he wrote and narrated the acclaimed documentary which inspired this book. Currently artist-in-residence at Risley College for the Creative and Performing Arts at Cornell University, he is the author of Serling, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Reviews for The Frank Family That Survived

Impeccably researched and exhaustive in detail, this is both a moving memoir and an illuminating work of history. -- Hampstead and Highgate Express * Hampstead and Highgate Express * Excellent... Gordon Sander gives a fascinating and moving account of the remarkable story of another Dutch family called Frank who also went into hiding in July 1942. -- The Jewish News * The Jewish News *