Anne+Frank

by David, Grade 6

Annelies Marie Frank was born in 12 June 1929 . She’s one of the most talked about Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, which documents her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, is one of the world's most widely known books. Anne Frank’s story is so important because she kept a diary while she was hiding in one of the most populated Nazi countries. It was so dangerous that the family had to trust the people delivering food to them not to tell the Nazi’s about the Frank’s and the other family hiding with them.

Born in the city of Frankfurt, Germany, Anne lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in the early 1930s when the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. On Monday, 6 July 1942, the family moved into their hiding place, a secret annex. Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly. Otto Frank also left a note that hinted they were going to Switzerland . As the Jewish population were taken to camps or killed, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where Anne's father worked. In August 1944, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died on March in 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated in April. Anne was 16 when she died.