Abraham Frank was a son of Akiba Frank and Heintje de Lange. On 28 April 1938 he married in Amsterdam Elisabeth Steintje den Hartog, a daughter of Hartog den Hartog (passed in 1926) and Carolina van der Giessen.
After their marriage in 1938 the lived in with their mothther-in-law Carolina den Hartog-van der Giesen at Sarpatistraat 90 III, which was her residence since July 1936. Both children, Jozua Hartog and Hanna Rachel were born there. But in October 1941 they all had to move to Muiderschans 90 II in Amsterdam, which was also their last known address till their deportation.
Abraham Frank worked as archivist 1st grade at the Jewisch Community in Amsterdam and he had completed a study of doctoral history. On 12 July 1942 he was registered at the Jewish Council and presumably due to the “sperre” of his wife, he and his wife and children were only registered on 26 May 1943 in Camp Westerbork, where they had to stay in barack 55.
Abraham’s spouse, Elisabeth Steintje den Hartog completed her doctoral study “of old cases”, as was recorded on her card at the Jewish Council at the time of registration on 12 July 1942. She was a volunteer nurse at the Municipal Office of Social Affairs at Houtmarkt in Amsterdam and because of that, “safeguarded (gesperrt) because of function”
Both his children, Jozua Hartog and Hanna Rachel arrived with their parents in Camp Westerbork too and stayed also in barack 55. The complet family however was put on transport to Sobibor in 1 June, where they all were killed immediately upon arrival there on 4 June 1943.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Abraham Frank and Carolina van der Giessen; website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Frank, Elisabeth Steintje den Hartog, Jozua Hartog Frank and Hanna Rachel Frank.