Father Anne Frank: USA our only option Interior

The researchers followed the written trail of the Frank family's visa applications. They found new sources and discovered additional facts, according to a spokeswoman for Anne Frank House. "I feel obliged to watch the migration and the United States is the only country where we can go," wrote Otto Frank to a good friend in New York on April 30, 1941.

Father Frank tried twice to emigrate with his family to the United States. The first attempt failed because the US consulate in Rotterdam was devastated by the German bombings of May 14, 1940. The second attempt in 1941 failed because the Nazis had closed all American consulates in occupied Europe. Much Paperwork

Prior to the visa, claimants were required to provide many documents, such as statements of character, statements of support, tax returns, birth certificates and marriage records.

Has the emigration of the Frank family been successful? At the time, the United States had a very strict immigration policy and no policies included Jewish refugees.

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Otto Frank began in 1938 to try to bring the family out of the Netherlands, after the German annexation. Austria and the Kristallnacht in Germany

When all efforts were thwarted, the family hid in the secret annex on July 6, 1942. Anne wrote her famous newspaper there. Otto Frank was the only one of the family who survived the war