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To understand Anne Frank’s family, identified widely as a Frankfurt family that fled to Amsterdam in the 1930s, one needs a more detailed study of Anne’s “annecestors” who lived throughout Germany in prior centuries. In this talk, Karen S. Franklin delves into this history. The talk will divulge details about Anne's forebears, including Rabbi Abraham Frank, and colorful stories such as a practical joke played in the 1600s by another ancestor of Anne's, recorded in the memoirs of Glueckl of Hameln. The shocking discovery of the fate of Anne’s forebears some 600 years before she was murdered casts her fate in the larger context of Jewish historical experience.
To understand Anne Frank’s family, identified widely as a Frankfurt family that fled to Amsterdam in the 1930s, one needs a more detailed study of Anne’s “annecestors” who lived throughout Germany in prior centuries. In this talk, Karen S. Franklin delves into this history. The talk will divulge details about Anne's forebears, including Rabbi Abraham Frank, and colorful stories such as a practical joke played in the 1600s by another ancestor of Anne's, recorded in the memoirs of Glueckl of Hameln. The shocking discovery of the fate of Anne’s forebears some 600 years before she was murdered casts her fate in the larger context of Jewish historical experience.
