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Jacob Frank (1726-1791), pseudo-messiah, born in Korolowka, Podolia, he was a trader who, while in Turkey, came into contact with the group that continued to believe in the messiahship of Shabbetai Tsevi. He began to study the Zohar and came to believe he was the reincarnation of Shabbetai Tsevi and developed a theology with a trinitarian basis (God, the Messiah, and the Shekhina - a female hypostasis of God). He acquired a following in eastern Europe and was excommunicated by the rabbis in 1756. The rabbis denounced the group to the Catholic authorities but Frank put himself under the protection of the bishop of Kaminiec-Podolski who ordered a public disputation. The Frankists accepted Christianity and Frank was baptized in Warsaw cathedral with the king as his godfather. However the Church grew suspicious and he was exiled for 13 years to the fortress of Czestochowa. On his release he moved to Bruenn and then to Offenbach where the sect was reestablished under the 'Holy Lord;' who now called himself Baron von Frank. After his death the sect continued to exist in Offenbach under Frank's daughter, Eve, as ' queen' and 'high priestess' practicing secret rites including ritual orgies. Eventually it disintegrated.

Anne (Annelies Marie) Frank (1929-1945), author, born in  Frankfurt on Main, Germany. She was taken with her family to Amsterdam after the Nazis seized power in 1933. After Holland was invaded in 1940, her father prepared for the eventuality of hiding and in July 1942 the family and a few friends moved into the attic of the vacant annex of her father's business premises where they were hidden by four of her father's employees. For the next two years they remained in the attic and Anne kept a diary of their life. In Aug. 1944, after being tipped off, the Germans arrested them all and send them to death camps. Anne and her sister were sent to Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp where they died of typhus in March 1945. Her diary was discovered by one of those who had hidden them and given to her father who survived the war. First published in 1947, it became a recognized world classic translated into numerous languages. The house in which they hid, known as the Anne Frank House, became a center of pilgrimage for visitors from all parts of the world and houses the Anne Frank Foundation established to fight anti-Semitism and racism.