--- title: Anne Franks' Father's Letter to Family That Found her Book description: "It would please me if you keep the book for your daughter in memory of my children" canonical: https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-28T14:30:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:12.988Z article:section: History og:title: How Anne Frank's Father Thanked the Family That Found Her Copy of 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' og:description: "It would please me if you keep the book for your daughter in memory of my children" og:url: https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d2ad4c55b01e91b/69888c590a4a2227459c8f7b/grimms-fairy-tales.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1120 og:image:height: 630 og:image:alt: grimms-fairy-tales og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Anne Frank's Father Thanked the Family That Found Her Copy of 'Grimms' Fairy Tales' twitter:description: "It would please me if you keep the book for your daughter in memory of my children" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d2ad4c55b01e91b/69888c590a4a2227459c8f7b/grimms-fairy-tales.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Anne Frank's Father Thanked the Family That Found Her Copy of _Grimms' Fairy Tales_ > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 28, 2016 2:30 PM UTC  Swann Auction Galleries by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 28, 2016 2:30 PM UTC In 1977, a Dutch family revisited a book their parents had bought them shortly after World War II and discovered something remarkable inside. Their copy of _Grimm’s Fairy Tales_ had two signatures on the title page: those of Anne Frank and her sister, [Margot](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/03/exclusive-an-excerpt-from-jillian-cantors-margot/) Frank. The book had been left behind by the Frank family when they fled their Merwedeplein apartment to hide in the now-infamous annex where they tried to escape persecution. Sometime after that—after the Frank family had been found, after Anne and Margot died at Bergen-Belsen—the book ended up in an Amsterdam bookstore, and subsequently in this Dutch family’s home. _Read more:_ [_TIME’s Original Book Review for Anne Frank’s Diary_](http://time.com/3912767/anne-frank-diary-review/) When the family members (who wish to remain anonymous) discovered that the book had belonged to the famous diarist, they wrote to Anne’s father, Otto, who had shepherded his daughter’s [diary](http://time.com/3610775/diary-of-anne-frank-smartphone-app/) to publication after her death. He urged them to keep the book, explaining “it would please me if you keep the book for your daughter in memory of my children.” Here is the full text of Otto Frank’s letter, in a translation provided by Swann Auction Galleries: --- > “” --- Now, nearly 40 years after the book was rediscovered, it and the letter will go up for auction at Swann on May 5.  Anne and Margot Frank's copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales Swann Auction Galleries  Both sisters signed the title page Swann Auction Galleries  Otto Frank's letter to the family that found his daughters' book Swann Auction Galleries ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/"},"headline":"How Anne Frank's Father Thanked the Family That Found Her Copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales","datePublished":"2016-03-28T14:30:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:12.988Z","description":"\"It would please me if you keep the book for your daughter in memory of my children\"","url":"https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/","keywords":["Books","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d2ad4c55b01e91b/69888c590a4a2227459c8f7b/grimms-fairy-tales.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d2ad4c55b01e91b/69888c590a4a2227459c8f7b/grimms-fairy-tales.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"grimms-fairy-tales","caption":"","creditText":"Swann Auction Galleries","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4270557/anne-frank-grimms-fairy-tales/","name":"How Anne Frank's Father Thanked the Family That Found Her Copy of Grimms' Fairy Tales"}}]}] ```