"On 6 June 1977, Bibi van Groen wrote a letter to Otto Frank, the father of Anne and Margot, who was then 88 and living in Switzerland. She explained that while clearing out their bookcase, she, her husband, and daughter had found a fairy tale book bearing the names of Anne and Margot Frank. Her husband had purchased the book in 1945 at a second-hand bookshop in Amsterdam and only now, more than 30 years later, realized it had once belonged to the Frank sisters.
A remembrance of my children’Otto Frank responded on 10 June 1977, stating that the book had likely been left behind in their former home on Merwedeplein and somehow ended up with the bookseller 'after everything was taken away by the Germans.' He added, 'Since the book you found is a beautifully illustrated edition of Grimm’s Märchen and I sense your sympathy for our fate from your letter, I would like you to keep it for your little daughter as a remembrance of my children.'”
"Anne Frank House acquires Book of Fairy Tales..."
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