Introduction by John Keegan
The story of The Frank Family That Survived is as arresting as that of the Frank family — Anne Frank’s family — that did not. With this difference: it is a story of triumphant overcoming of...
View ArticleChapter 2: Ultra-Dada Days
“A terrorist revolution under the leadership of Dr. Liebknicht, the Radical Socialist, will break out Friday evening, according to reports. Liebknicht, the reports say, has 15,000 men well-armed. The...
View ArticleChapter 6: Submerging
“To the decree of 30 June 1942 D III 516 g with references to my teletype messages — No. 250 of 17 July 1942–” Subject: Deportation of Jews –The deportation of the Dutch Jews has proceeded undisturbed....
View ArticlePostscript: Journey's End
Special for the Prometheus edition of “The Frank Family That Survived.” The long odyssey behind this book — my odyssey — did not end with the publication of the first edition of this book in summer...
View ArticleBBC Interview
BBC Breakfast TV – 7 September 2004 Watch the interview of Gordon and Dorrit Sander on BBC Breakfast.
View ArticleThe Frank Family That Survived: The BBC Radio Documentary
From BBC Radio 4, September 2001 In July 1942, two Dutch Jewish families, both called Frank, entered into hiding from the Nazis, one in Amsterdam, the other in The Hague. In “The Frank Family That...
View ArticleReviews and Comments
NEW YORK Anyone who has thrilled to the story of Anne Frank will want to read this book about the Frank family that survived. The tensions roused by the gripping narrative reflect the complexities of...
View ArticleThe Family Man Betrayed for Diving Under (Financial Times Weekend 7/27/02)
An absorbing biography of Anne Frank’s father does not settle the question of who told the Nazis. “In a certain way it way it was a happy time,” Otto Frank wrote in an unpublished postwar memoir that...
View ArticleFrank and Free (Jewish Chronicle [UK] 9/2/04)
Nine days after Anne Frank’s family went into hiding — or, as it was called in those times, “dived under” — my mother Dorrit, together with her parents, Myrtil and Flort Frank, and her sister Sybil,...
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