![A picture from happy days: Anne Frank in the 1930s on summer holiday in Sils.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/anne-frank-titel-300x225.jpg)
Anne Frank and Switzerland
Anne Frank had close ties with Switzerland. Here she spent happy days with the family, some of whom had been living in Basel since 1929.
![Leni and Erich with their sons Stephan and Buddy and Leni's mother Alice. The picture dates from 1929, shortly before the family emigrated to Basel.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Familie-Elias-Basel-300x188.jpg)
![Edith Frank with her daughters Margot and Anne in Sils Maria, summer 1937. None survived the Holocaust.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/engadin-240x300.jpg)
Ice clown Buddy in action. YouTube / Anne Frank Fonds, Basel
![Ice skates from the 1930s: Black boots with screwed-on blades.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schlittschuhe-300x186.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.