Betty Frank, born in Steenwijk, was a daughter of Joachim Samuel Frank and Dora Heijmans. She had two brothers, namely Roelof, who lost his life in the Timor sea after a Japanese torpedo attack on his shp HMAS Armidale, where he served as medical officer and Nathan Bertus, who survived the Shoah. Through hiding, her parents survived the Holocaust too.
The Frank family moved from Steenwijk to Amste…