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July 2018 Newsletter 
New research into Otto Frank's attempts to emigrate to the US July 6, 1942 - the Frank family goes into hiding in Amsterdam 
 
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 New research into Frank family emigration efforts 
(Photo: One of the last known photos taken of the Frank family, taken on the Merwedeplein square in Amsterdam, 1941. Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam) 
On 6 July 1942, 76 years ago today, the Frank family went into hiding in the Secret Annex. After fruitless attempts to emigrate, going into hiding was the only remaining way to stay out of the hands of the Nazis. The Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer joined the Frank family in https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=b4638d59150d233f327c9de4c&id=2879c6805b[7/9/2018 11:54:43 AM] 
 
 New research into Frank family emigration efforts 
the Secret Annex shortly afterwards. Their attempts to emigrate had also failed. 
Today the Anne Frank House and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum present their report of their research into the attempts of Otto Frank, Anne's father, to emigrate to the United States. Bureaucracy, war and time thwarted Otto's emigration attempts, as well as those of many other Jews. 
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