The Story of a Jewish Child in a World of Hate

Anne was born Annelies Marie Frank

on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt,

Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank.

After the Nazi seizure of

power in 1933, the

Frank family began

fleeing to Amsterdam

in the Netherlands.

Anne was the last of

the family to arrive in

of February 1934

after staying with her

grandparents in

Aachen.

During July of 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding in an apartment which would

eventually also hide four Dutch Jews; Hermann, Auguste, and

Peter Van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer.

Otto Frank's friends and colleagues had previously helped to prepare

the hiding place and smuggled food and clothing to the Franks at

great risk to their own lives.

While Anne While Anne and her family and her family were in hiding, were in hiding,

other Jewish other Jewish people were people were

forced to wear forced to wear patches to patches to

identify them identify them as Jews.as Jews.

The German soldiers were instructed to capture all of the Jewish people and send

them to concentration camps to eventually be killed.

In September 1944 police authorities placed the Franks, and the four others hiding with

the Franks, on a train transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz, a concentration camp complex in German-occupied Poland.

Anne's mother, Edith died in Auschwitz in early January

1945. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the war. Soviet forces liberated

Otto at Auschwitz on January 27,

1945.

Miep Gies, one of the people who had helped hide

the Franks, found the diary

in the secret apartment after the family was arrested. She held onto it in

hopes to return it to Anne after

the war.

Anne Frank

has

become a

symbol for

the lost

promise of

the

children

who died in

the

Holocaust.