![]() ![]() His father had worked his way up to ownership of what is now the Macy’s department store chain. Straus’s ancestors-German Jews, like the Franks-had emigrated a century earlier to the United States, where they sold dry goods. ![]() was the friend to whom he wrote for help. As antisemitic regulations mounted, Frank realized that the only way to guarantee his family’s safety was to escape. But the Nazi invasion in May 1940 turned their refuge into a cage. The Frank family-Otto, Edith, and their two daughters, Margot and Anne-had spent the past seven years in the Netherlands, where they fled after Hitler came to power in their native Germany. “I am forced to look out for emigration and as far as I can see USA is the only country we could go to,” Otto Frank wrote to an American friend on April 30, 1941. ![]()
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