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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.