Letters from Anne Frank's father have been uncovered in a North East theatre after it became one of the first in the country to stage a performance of the Diary of Anne Frank.
Otto Frank typed two letters to Gateshead's Little Theatre in 1963 after the venue's amateur community drama club, Progressive Players, performed a play based on his daughter's diary. Anne Frank documented her life in hiding for two years in a secret annex to escape Nazi persecution.
But the family were found when German police raided the building in Amsterdam where they were living following reports of fraudulent food-ration cards and illegal employment. Anne died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, aged 15, just two weeks before the camp was liberated.
