In 1960, Otto Frank returned to the attic where his family had hidden during the war.It was the place where Anne wrote her diary, where days were measured in silence, fear, and waiting.By then, Otto was the only one still alive. His wife Edith and his daughters, Margot and Anne, had not returned. Walking through those rooms again meant facing absence more than memory. The walls were the same, the stairs unchanged, but the life that once filled the space was gone.This visit was not an act of nost

Otto Frank speaks about his ideas at the Anne Frank House in 1963. A message to the world, then and now. In the spirit of #OttoFrank, the Anne Frank House runs educational programs all over the world. Film: © 1963 Peter Reynolds, For The Record Productions, Toronto, Canada. | Anne Frank House

#OnThisDay 1929: Anne Frank was born. In 1979, her father Otto explained to Blue Peter's Lesley Judd how his daughter's famous diary survived to become a best-seller. | BBC Archive