Edith Frank was a German-born Jewish woman, best known as the mother of Anne Frank, the young diarist who documented her life in hiding during the Holocaust. Born on January 16, 1900, in Aachen, Germany, she married Otto Frank in 1925. The couple had two daughters, Margot and Anne. During World War II, the Frank family went into hiding in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. They lived in a secret annex for over two years before being discovered in 1944. Edith Frank was later deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in early 1945.