![Anne Frank wrote what is probably the most famous diary in the world.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anne-frank-tagebuch-300x225.jpg)
Anne Frank and the Basel connection
From Basel and later from Birsfelden, Anne Frank’s father, Otto, worked to ensure that what is probably the most famous diary in history was read all over the world.
![Portrait of Otto Frank, 1961.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/otto-frank-233x300.jpg)
![Anne Frank in a photograph dating from 1941.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anne-frank-208x300.jpg)
![First edition of Anne Frank’s diary, which was published in Dutch in 1947.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/buch-erstausgabe-300x265.jpg)
![Fritzi and Otto Frank at an event in Wisen (Canton of Solothurn), 1978.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Fritzi-und-Otto-300x219.jpg)
Anne Frank and Switzerland
The diary of Anne Frank is world famous. It’s less well known that the journey to global publication began in Switzerland. Anne, her sister and her mother all died in the Holocaust. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive. After the war, he initially returned to Amsterdam. In the 1950s, he moved in with his sister in Basel. From there, he made it his task to share his daughter’s diary with the world whilst preserving her message on humanity and tolerance for the coming generations.