Documentary NO ASYLUM Portrays Desperate Efforts by Anne Frank’s Father to Escape Nazi-Occupied Holland
While Anne Frank’s father moved the family from Frankfurt, Germany to the Netherlands after the Nazis took over Germany in 1933, the family ultimately had to go into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland when the Franks could not get entry visas to any safe haven country including the U.S.
This documentary, which is available in two different lengths, tells the account of Otto Frank’s desperate — and ultimately unsuccessful — efforts to get his family to safety outside Nazi-occupied Europe. This is new information based on the finding of the long-lost letters that Otto Frank wrote in his efforts to get visas for his family to the U.S. The documentary also tells what happened to the family members after they were discovered in the hidden annex.The documentary includes information on the multinational Evian Conference about refugee issues.
From Wikpedia re the Evian Conference:
The Évian Conference was convened 6–15 July 1938, at Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the Jewish refugee problem and the plight of the increasing numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing persecution by Nazi Germany. It was convened at the initiative of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The conference was attended by representatives from 32 countries, and 24 voluntary organizations also attended as observers, presenting plans either orally or in writing.
The conference was ultimately doomed, as aside from the Dominican Republic, delegations from the 32 participating nations failed to come to any agreement about accepting the Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich. The conference thus inadvertently proved to be a useful propaganda tool for the Nazis.
This documentary is highly recommended as part of an overall Holocaust education program to teach how difficult it was for Jews and others fleeing the Nazis to get to safety both before and during WWII.