Anne Frank family sought refuge in US, uncovered letters show

US historians have unveiled a cache of letters detailing how the father of teenage diarist Anne Frank tried to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Europe to the United States in 1941.

The 65 documents, which were found in a New York archive in 2005, show how Otto Frank tried desperately, but ultimately in vain, to flee the Netherlands, where the Nazis had already started deporting Jews to concentration camps.

Read full story: Deutsche Welle, 15 February 2007