THIS is the remarkable story of a Jewish family called Frank - who had no connection to the famous Anne Frank - who went into hiding in the Hague in 1942 to avoid transportation to the east, and were never caught by the Nazis.

The parallels between the two families are remarkable. Both had fled to Holland from Germany after Hitler came to power. Both consisted of a father, mother and two teenage daughters. And both went underground at about the same time.

Tragically, Anne Frank and her family were betrayed in August 1944 and sent to concentration camps in Poland and only Anne's father survived.

The Frank family who survived were Myrtil, his wife Flory and their daughters Dorrit and Sybil.

Myrtil was an businessman who arranged for the four to go to ground in a small flat and there they hid for 1,032 days until the liberation in 1945.

Myrtil, who posed as a German-Swiss doctor, used to leave the flat to get food without wearing his mandatory Jewish star. Somehow, the family escaped a door-to-door forced-labour roundup by the Nazis.

After the war, the family emigrated to America. This book has been written by their grandson.

Nearly 110,000 Dutch Jews - about 77 per cent of the country's pre-war Jewish population - died in the death camps. Amazingly, about 15,000 who "dived" like the Myrtil Franks, survived. One does not often hear about them and it is a joy to read this story of a family who outsmarted their Nazi tormentors.

The Frank Family That Survived by Gordon F Sander, (Hutchinson, £17.99)