Andries Frank and his brother Alexander were still unmarried when the Second World War began, but their sister Hanna Rachel was already married in 1938. Andries Frank was born in Tiel on 4 March 1914 and Alexander in Middelburg on 1 October 1923. However Andries, who was a chef by profession, married on 5 August 1942 Hanna Vogel from Rotterdam. She was born 19 February 1918 as daughter of Levie Vogel and Klaartje van Trommel.
Hanna Vogel lived in Rotterdam till 1926. That year she came to Amsterdam in June and lived at various addresses, till she and her parents came living in the Eerste Oosterparkstraat 3 2nd floor in Amsterdam-East.
Andries arrived from Bergen (N.H.) in Amsterdam in 1932 and he and his parents too, lived at various addresses, till his parents moved 7 March 1939 to Plantage Franschelaan 11 parterre. (the lane was renamed into Henri Polaklaan after the war). When Andries got married in 1942, his bride Hanna Vogel joined him.
According to his registration card of the Jewish Council, he had an horticultural training of 2½ year and he worked in a restaurant. But already since 1 January1937, Andries had been appointed as chef and manager in Rest Home Frank. As such, Andries Frank was “exempted from deportation until further notice”. His wife Hanna was appointed as a nurse in Rest Home Frank but in the past she had worked as an embroiderer . Since her marriage, Hanna Vogel too was exempted from deportation until further notice because of function and because of function of her husband.
On 4 February 1943 also Andries and his wife Hanna were taken from home to Westerbork where they, just as mother Cato Frank-Ossendrijver and the family of his sister Hanna Rachel de Vries-Frank , ended up in barrack 55. On 9 February Andries Frank and Hanna Vogel and all other family members were deported to Auschwitz where on arrival on 12 February 1943, Hanna Frank-Vogel was immediately killed. Andries on the other hand, was selected for “work” and eventually, at the same time as his brother-in-law Jacob de Vries, he lost his life in Auschwitz on 30 April 1943.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hartog Frank and archive cards of Hartog Frank, Cato Ossendrijver, Jacob de Vries, Hanna Rachel Frank, Andries Frank and Hanna Vogel and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Andries Frank and Hanna Frank-Vogel.