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Anne Frank's diary question

posted 10 years ago by LiberalFilmFan
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Her father, Otto Frank, was the only survivor of the Frank family after WWII. He published her diary in 1947 and both a play and a film was made about this. Otto Frank lived until 1980, 35 years after the end of the war. Does anybody know how much money he made on the diary, the play, and the film adaption? Did he give any money received from those three mediums to charity or to aid fellow survivors?

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[–] LesterFester 9 years ago

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank

In response to a demolition order placed on the building in which Otto Frank and his family had hidden during the war, he and Johannes Kleiman helped establish the Anne Frank Foundation on 3 May 1957, with the principal aim of saving and restoring the building, to allow it to be opened to the general public. With the aid of public donations, the building (and its adjacent neighbour) was purchased by the Foundation. It opened as a museum (the Anne Frank House) on 3 May 1960, and it can still be visited today.

It doesn't say explicitly that the money went to the foundation but I'd say it's a safe bet some or all of it did. He did need money to live.

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[–] angmc43 9 years ago

From what I've learned, Otto and his second wife lived a rather humble lifestyle, not touching any profits except for maybe necessary survival.

[–] astockton_uk 9 years ago

My guess is that both Otto Frank and his second wife, who also survived the Holocaust, received shares of the reparations which Germany has been paying to Holocaust survivors for decades. Also, they may have received old-age pensions from the government in Switzerland, where they lived after the war.

[–] Tullyboy 9 years ago

I have to say, your query is one of the more potentionally insensitive, prying questions I've read on IMDb in a while . . .

What is the reason you
asked such a question about his very personal business?