11 The Diaries , 14 October 1942.
12 604 Keizersgracht, see http://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/ .
13 ‘Otto did not marry Edith because of her dowry.’ Buddy Elias, email dated 30 December 2010.
14 Cor Suijk (born in 1924, hereafter referred to as Cor) is the former director of the Anne Frank Stichting. In the beginning of the 1980s, he received four original pages from The Diaries from Otto’s inheritance in which Anne states that Otto never loved Edith much, because he could not forget his first love whose parents would not let her marry him. Otto wanted Cor to receive these papers after his death. Insiders already knew about these pages from the A version of Anne’s diary. These four pages, however, were part of the rewritten (B-)version by Anne, which she planned to publish after the war. 4 Otto Frank, who passed away in 1980, wanted to make these extracts public after his demise. The NIOD added a note to the 8 February 1944 entry of Anne’s diary: ‘In the 47 lines omitted here [the four retrieved pages] Anne Frank gave an extremely unkind [which is incorrect, Anne shows empathy for her mother] and partly unfair picture [also incorrect, Anne describes her parents’ marriage as not characterised by real passion but by correctitude] of her parents’ marriage. At the request of the Frank family this passage has been deleted.’ From: De Dagboeken van Anne Frank [The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition.] Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Amsterdam, 1990), p. 499. A nasty quarrel ensued. According to Cor (email dated 13 January 2011), various sources, e.g. the NRC national paper 13 March 2001 issue, incorrectly stated that he had sold the retrieved pages written by Anne Frank to the NIOD. ‘ When, after a long, antagonistic row between the NIOD, the Anne Frank House and the Anne Frank Fonds about my possession of the pages, the government prosecutor concluded after thorough investigation that I was the legal owner, I donated the pages to the NIOD. Three months later, the Dutch government, as a token of appreciation, decided to support my educational institute in the United States [ www.c-hef.org ] with a considerable amount of money.’ The Anne Frank Fonds is of the opinion that it holds the rights to the diaries. The missing pages were published in The Diary of Anne Frank: the Critical Edition by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (1st Dutch ed. Amsterdam 1986, 1st English ed. New York 1989).
15 The Diaries , 8 February 1944.
16 http://www.freebase.com/view/m/073j4gd .
17 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 23.
18 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 23. After WWI, Frankfurt am Main expanded and new districts were built, such as Bergen-Enkheim and Frankfurter Berg.
19 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 23.
20 http://juedischesmuseum.de/museumsgeschichte.html?&L=1 .
21 Foods prepared according to Jewish dietary law.
22 The exact location of this hospital ‘of the fatherland’s women’s association’ could not be traced: it was destroyed during WWII. Buddy Elias (email 30 December 2010): ‘Yes as much as I know Anne was born in that Klinik. Address unknown to me.’
23 The Diaries , 8 May 1944.
24 http://www.bnaibrith-amsterdam.org/ .
25 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 24. 26 https://www.uzh.ch/khist/static/Online_Docs/100_Jahre_Westend_Synagoge_100_a ni.pdf .
27 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 24.
28 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 24. Some others doubt whether the Franks attended the Westend Synagogue. ‘Ob Familie Frank die Westendsynagoge besuchte weiss ich nicht. Auf jeden Fall war die 4 Westendsynagoge jedoch seit Ihrer Gründung bis zur Progromnacht eine Liberale Synagoge. Erst nach dem 2. Weltkrieg wird sie als orthodoxe Synagoge benutzt (…)’. [I do not know whether the Franks attended the Westend Synagogue. In any case, the Westend Synagogue was a liberal synagogue from its establishment up to the night of the Pogrom. Only after the Second World War did it become an orthodox synagogue (...)’] Email from Rachel Heuberger, Manager Hebraica and Judaica Collection, Frankfurt university library, dated 27 June 2010.
29 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 25.
30 http://www.freebase.com/view/en/herbert_frank .
31 http://www.freebase.com/view/en/gertrud_naumann .
32 Melissa Müller, Anne Frank. De biografie (Amsterdam, 1998), p. 33.
33 http://ludwigrichterschule.de/2009/ (German only). According to Mr. Erhard Claudy (email dated 24 June 2011) the Ludwig-Richter Schule in Frankfurt am Main still owns a poor quality photograph with Margot Frank on it.
34 http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Life-in-Germany/Happy-years/ .
35 The ‘Bund jüdischer Soldaten’ (RjF) was banned by the Nazis in 1938: http://www.bundjuedischersoldaten-online.com/39994.html (German only)
36 http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Life-in-Germany/Crisis-and-anti- Semitism/
37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_1932
38 http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/Life-in-Germany/Crisis-and-anti- Semitism/
39 http://www.frankfurt1933-1945.de (German only)
40 Melissa Müller refers to this street as the Mertoustrasse (incorrect spelling) Melissa Müller, Anne