Letters were found from Anne Frank’s father documenting his attempts to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Holland. Time Magazine reported that in summer 2005, Estelle Guzik, a volunteer archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, found some 80 documents of Otto Frank’s correspondence from 1941 tracking his attempts to take his family to safety in the United States.
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