Anne Frank was refused sanctuary by the U.S.

[Ian David]

The father of Anne Frank sent desperate letters to the U.S. pleading for cash and help so his family could escape Nazi-occupied Holland, according to papers released yesterday.

It casts new light on the wartime lives of Otto Frank and his family, who hid for more than two years from July 1942 in an annex in an Amsterdam warehouse before being arrested...

He tried to arrange U. S. visas for his family - wife Edith, daughters Margo and Anne and mother-in-law Rosa Hollander - before they went into hiding. 'I know that it will be impossible for us all to leave.... but Edith urges me to leave alone or with the children,' he wrote to college friend Nathan Straus.

In another letter he wrote: 'I would not ask if conditions here would not force me to do all I can in time to be able to avoid worse. It is for the sake of the children mainly that we have to care for. Our own fate is of less importance.' His efforts were hampered by restrictive American immigration policies designed to protect national security, Holocaust experts said.

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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."-Anne Frank

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