The inspiring story of a German-Jewish family named Frank, which, like Ann Frank's family, "dived under" in Nazi-occupied Holland but miraculously survived. This is the gripping story of the other Frank family, told by the grandson of the head of the family: from childhood in an assimilated German-Jewish family at Breitenheim, through the deceptively good life of Berlin in the 1920s, to the rise of Hitler and their flight to apparently safe Holland, the nightmarish ordeal of their thousand day long "submersion" in a small apartment in The Hague, and the joy and pain of liberation and their final journey to America, the same route Anne Frank might have taken had she not been betrayed. Based on personal testaments, records and family interviews, the book describes their life behind closed curtains in constant fear of discovery. In 1945, after many adventures and appalling vicissitudes, they finally emerged to face the uncertainties of postwar Holland and the promise of the New World. This painstakingly documented book uses the Frank family saga as a prism through which to view and understand eighty years of European history, including the rise and fall of German Jewry, the war and resistance in Holland, and the tragedy within a tragedy that was the Dutch Holocaust.