The Story of Anne Frank

Anne Frank's story did not start in July 1942 when her family went into hiding or when she started writing her diary. Instead, it goes back much further than that, because the Frank family, although mostly associated with Amsterdam today, they were of course Germans. So take us through that history. What were the Frank family doing before they arrived in the Netherlands and how did they get there? Otto Frank, Otto Frank's father, he was from a family that been living in Frankfurt a mine quite some time. And chiefly his father worked his way up from just a businessman, so to speak. The family shifted into affluence, you can say he was a banker and successful at that.