Buddy Elias

Buddy Elias on a reading in the Anne Frank Zentrum in Berlin 2012

Bernhard Paul "Buddy" Elias (2 June 1925 – 16 March 2015) was a Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds.

Elias was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1925. His father, Erich Elias, became head of the Basel-based Opekta company in 1929 and Bernhard moved there in 1931. In 1947 he joined Holiday on Ice and was with them for over ten years and later acted on stage in Switzerland, Great Britain, France, and Germany. In the mid-1970s, he appeared increasingly in film and television, mainly in Holocaust-themed productions.

Elias was the first cousin and last surviving close relative of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945. He was president of the Anne Frank Fonds, located in Basel. The Anne Frank Fonds is responsible for the rights of Franks' Diary of a Young Girl, which until his death in 1980 had been headed by her father, Otto Frank.

Elias lived in Basel with his wife, Gerti Elias (nee Wiedner), where he died on 16 March 2015. They had two sons, Patrick and Oliver, who became actors.

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  1. ↑ Ehrenplakette auf Frankfurt.de
  2. ↑ Buddy Elias im Gespräch mit Christian Düblin (2008)

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