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Otto Frank and Edith Holländer get married

May 12, 1925 Aachen

On 8 May 1925, Otto Frank and Edith Holländer got married at city hall in Aachen. They had met a few years earlier, when Otto's brother Herbert got engaged to a friend of Edith’s in Aachen.

On 12 May, Otto's 36th birthday, their marriage was solemnised in the synagogue of Aachen. In the evening there was a large banquet for all their guests. After the wedding, Otto and Edith went on honeymoon to San Remo in Italy. 

The first year and a half of their marriage, they lived with Otto's mother Alice Frank-Stern in Frankfurt am Main.