Juanita Wagner

Who is Juanita Wagner?

Anne wrote at least one letter to this American girl (on 29 April 1940). Juanita's older sister, Betty Ann, was Margot's pen pal. The Wagners were Iowa farm girls. Both Frank girls wrote to them in English, with Otto's help. The Wagner's replies to the two Frank girls' late April 1940 letters did not reach them, due to the German occupation, which started with the invasion on 10 May 1940. The Wagners held onto those late April letters from Amsterdam and learned from Otto of Anne's and Margot's deaths after the war. Those letters from the Franks are now either in the Anne Frank Foundation archives, in Amsterdam, or in the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. There is detailed information about the penpal arrangements at elsewhere online.