European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 5, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 23 a photos in this image released by the Anne Frank House in the Frank family poses for a photograph in a spa in Germany in Otto Anne Franks is in the front Row wearing a sailors the of history museum receives cousins trove of Anne Frank Memorabilia above in this two photographs Are combined of Anne Frank and her posing on the Beach of in the picture taken from the rear was known the one with and Margot facing the camera has recently been right Bernhard buddy Anne Franks has permanently loaned photos and documents to the Anne Frank House in by Arthur Max the associated press Anne Franks Cousin has donated thousands of photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the Back ground of the teenage diarist who became a Symbol of the Bernhard buddy had kept the materials for decades in his attic in Switzer land before permanently lending them to the Anne Frank House the museum incorporating the tiny apartment where the family hid during the nazi occupation of the nether lands to Mark the 60th anniversary of the first publication of the diary of Anne the donation includes Otto Franks 1945 letter informing his Mother in Switzerland that his Anne and and his had died in nazi concentration Camps the letter his Mother wrote respond ing to diary excerpts that Otto sent her and photographs from the late 1890s of the Frank family in their native with Elias the Amsterdam museum now holds nearly All known historical material about the including the postwar years when Otto Frank the Only survivor compiled and promoted the this is a very moving moment for Elias said As he handed a thick inventory of the Archive to the director of the Anne Frank Hans the documents include material Otto gave to the foundation he started in in his daughters memo and letters from Elias Home in that Long stored in cupboards and the Otto died in the Archive has Little new information about the 25 months the Frank family and four other jews hid in the Annex of the Ware House where Otto Frank had operated a spice it includes a 1942 business letter to the family in Switzerland from Johannes Kle who was helping to hide the obliquely hinting that they were still archivist Peter Toebak but the collections value is in understand ing the family cultured background in Ger Many and the background for the teenagers Talent in they spoke four Elias they were interested in in when they went to a concert or a they wrote about that All in these Otto Frank came from a wealthy Frankfurt the Archive contains an invitation to his a banker who died in to attend a function for the Otto and his brother served in the German army during world War but after the nazis began persecuting jews the family scattered to the Netherlands and Elias is the son of ottos younger who lived in Toebak said the collection May contain some surprises that historians could discover when they begin to delve into the Anne her parents and sister were arrested in August her writings in notebooks and Loose sheets of paper were scooped up hours after the arrest by Miep an employee of Otto Franks who gave them to Otto when he returned after the Anne died of typhus in March 1945 in the Bergen Belsen concentration Camp at age two weeks before the Camp was Otto edited the papers and published copies of the diary in dutch on june As Het or the it was translated into French and then English in 1952 As the diary of a Young which later became the diary of Anne Frank and was translated into 65 to learn More about Anne go to or