For me, it was a revelation. There, was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had lost. I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings.

This attracted the interest of Amsterdam's Contact Publishing and in the summer of 1946 they accepted it for publication. After being imprisoned in Amsterdam the Jewish prisoners were sent to the Dutch transit camp of Westerbork and finally to Auschwitz. Otto Frank married a former neighbor from Amsterdam and fellow Auschwitz survivor Elfriede Geiringer (1905–1998) in Amsterdam on 10 November 1953 and both moved to Basel Switzerland where he had family including children with whom he shared his experiences.

Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank.