Pages of history: Anne Frank's family tried to escape from the Nazis in the United States, but could not get a visa - ForumDaily
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Pages of history: Anne Frank's family tried to escape from the Nazis in the United States, but could not get a visa

The family of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who perished during the Holocaust, tried to emigrate to the United States and then to Cuba, but was unable to do so because of the restrictive immigration policies of America and the start of World War II. This is evidenced by new research, writes NBC News.

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Representatives of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said they found documents that indicate that Anna Otto's father tried to collect the documents necessary for obtaining visas to the United States twice. He later applied for a visa to Cuba.

However, efforts to organize an escape were in vain. The Frank family was able to hide from the Nazis in Amsterdam on July 6 1942.

Probably, his father tried to take the family out of the United States back in 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed Austria and part of Czechoslovakia to the Third Reich.

Otto Frank wrote to his friend Nathan Straus in 1941 that he applied to the American consulate in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam in 1938.

In the letter, he mentioned that “all statements were destroyed” after 14 in May 1940, the consulate was devastated after the German bombardment, and the documents were lost.

Even if the documents were not lost, it would have been difficult for the Frank family to emigrate to the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge in the United States after the outbreak of war in 1939. And Washington continued to issue fewer 30 thousands of visas per year.

The processing of a visa application also required several years and a lot of paperwork, confirmation of relatives and friends. Even after meeting all these requirements, applications could be rejected.

The war has further complicated all immigration claims. A new attempt to move the family to the US in 1941 also failed, since all the American consulates in Europe occupied by Germany were closed by the Nazis. The application for Cuba submitted the same year also failed.

The Frank family was not outright denied visas, but “their efforts were thwarted by American bureaucracy, war and time,” historians write.

During the war, the family hid for more than two years, then Anna wrote her diaries. 4 August 1944 found them and sent the girl to Auschwitz.

Anna Otto's father survived the war. Anna and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Anne was 15 years old.

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