This is the remarkable story of a Jewish family called Frank - who had no connection to the famous Anne Frank - who went into hiding in the Hague in 1942 to avoid transportation to the east, and were never caught by the Nazis.
The parallels between the two eponymous families are remarkable. Both had fled to Holland from Germany after Hitler came to power. Both consisted of a father, mother and two teenage daughters. And both went underground at about the same time.
Tragically, Anne Frank and her family were betrayed in August 1944 and sent to concentration camps in Poland. Only Anne's father survived, but so did her diary. The Frank family who survived were Myrtil, his wife Flory and their daughters Dorrit and Sybil.
Nearly 110,000 Dutch Jews - about 77 per cent of the country's pre-war Jewish population - died in the death camps. One does not often hear about the ones that survived and it is a joy to read this story of a family who outsmarted their Nazi tormentors.
The Frank Family That Survived By Gordon F Sander is published by Hutchinson priced £17.99.
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