Anne Frank
Secret Annex
Anne's Diary
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Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. Otto and Edith Frank, parents of Anne, settled in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1933, Hitler took power as the leader of the German government. That same year Otto Frank starts a business in Amsterdam. Edith, Margot and Anne all move with him. In April of 1934, Anne starts attending the Montessori kindergarten. All of the children begin to attend school again. But on May 10, 1940, Germany invades the Netherlands.
Since Germany invaded, the Franks have to make restrictions to the family and Otto's business. Once Margot gets a call-up to go to a German work camp on July 5, 1942, they decide they must go into hiding that they had been planning months for. The Franks along with four other Jews move into the Secret Annex hidden by a bookcase. Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer were the four other people who lived in the annex. Four of Otto's employees helped them, while they were in hiding. During Anne's time in hiding, she kept a journal. She wrote short stories about her experiences and she copied down other sentences of her favorite writers. Anne wanted for her diary to be published after the war, so she starts to rewrite the journal until she was interrupted when she was discovered and then arrested. On August 4, 1944, everyone who was hiding in the Secret Annex were arrested. Someone had betrayed them and notified someone about where the annex was located. They first got deported to Westerbork transit camp, and then onto Auschwitz. Everyone who hid in the Secret Annex all died in a camp except, Otto Frank. After Auschwitz was liberated, Otto returned to Amsterdam. He goes back in hopes that Edith, Margot and Anne had survived the war, but he discovered that they had all died in a camp. Miep and Jan Gies, two of the employees who helped them in hiding, gave Otto Anne's diary. Otto published the diary 1947 and now it has been translated into almost 70 languages and is now one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust. |
Citations:
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/annefrank.html: Secret Annex
http://www.annefrank.ch/annes-world.html: Anne's Diary
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vENHinF0Q/Tr7iapckhoI/AAAAAAAA1Ds/iVbmOKV3Tuw/s1600/Anne_Frank%2528FL%25291_lg.gif: Article about Anne
http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_5190/cf_7652/st_edited/qkpjKsVyP-c7xJpYMDqH.jpg: Annes Face
"Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam - the Official Anne Frank House Website." Anne Frank House. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2015.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/annefrank.html: Secret Annex
http://www.annefrank.ch/annes-world.html: Anne's Diary
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3vENHinF0Q/Tr7iapckhoI/AAAAAAAA1Ds/iVbmOKV3Tuw/s1600/Anne_Frank%2528FL%25291_lg.gif: Article about Anne
http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_5190/cf_7652/st_edited/qkpjKsVyP-c7xJpYMDqH.jpg: Annes Face
"Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam - the Official Anne Frank House Website." Anne Frank House. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2015.