Otto Frank

Otto Heinrich Frank 12 May 1889 19 August 1980 was a German businessman and the father of Anne Frank He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations In the 1950s and the 1960s he established European charities in his daughters name and founded the trust which preserved his familys wartime hiding place the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam