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Anne Frank and seven others remained in hiding for 2 years in the "Secret Annex", a small apartment behind her father's business in Amsterdam.Anne Frank wrote most of her diary in the form of letters to a person named "Kitty."

Dmitri - Kitty sounds like a surname, just so that person wouldn't be caught or killed.

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Frank and her sister were forced to transfer to a segregated Jewish school. Otto Frank managed to keep control of his company by officially signing ownership over to two of his Christian associates, Jo Kleiman and Victor Kugler, while continuing to run the company from behind the scenes.
Nate: Very informative and I learned something I didn't because of this

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On June 12, 1942, Frank's parents gave her a red checkered diary for her 13th birthday. She wrote her first entry, addressed to an imaginary friend named Kitty, that same day: "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you.
Nate: Very beautiful quotes and nice picture

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Beginning in October 1940, the Nazi occupiers imposed anti-Jewish measures on the Netherlands. Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David at all times and observe a strict curfew; they were also forbidden from owning businesses.

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But that would all change on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, igniting a global conflict that would grow to become World War II. On May 10, 1940, the German army invaded the Netherlands, defeating overmatched Dutch forces.

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Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam." After years of enduring anti-Semitism in Germany, the Franks were relieved to once again enjoy freedom in their new hometown of Amsterdam.

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The swastika has an extensive history. It was used at least 5,000 years before Adolf Hitler designed the Nazi flag. The word swastikacomes from the Sanskrit svastika, which means “good fortune” or “well-being."
Dmitri - The Nazis were so bad that even Germany hates their past.

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Holocaust victim and famous diarist Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank, and her father, Otto Frank, was a lieutenant in the German army during World War I.

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In her diary, Otto reads about the plan Anne had to publish a book after the war about the time she spent in the Secret Annex. Initially, Otto Frank feels uncertain about the idea but he finally decides to fulfill his daughter's wish, but he decides to do it after all.
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I wrote about this too - Chris

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Miep gives him Anne’s diaries. Anne had wanted her diary to be published after the war, and her wish would eventually come true.

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After Auschwitz is liberated, Otto returns to Amsterdam. On his way back, he hears of Edith’s death. Back in Amsterdam, he goes to see Miep and Jan Gies.

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Otto Frank is the only person from the Secret Annex to survive the camps. unfortunately the others all die.
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How did he survive, unlike anyone else from the Annex Room? - Chris

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On 4 August 1944, everyone in the Secret Annex is arrested. Someone may have betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz.
Very Good Facts Kai

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Anne hopes for her diary to be published as a novel after the war. That’s why she starts rewriting it. But Anne never manages to finish it.

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Anne doesn’t just keep a diary during her time in the Secret Annex. She also writes short stories and collects her favorite sentences by other writers in a notebook.

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Everyone lives in constant fear of discovery. And it’s certainly not easy for eight people to live in such close quarters.

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They take their family into hiding in the hiding place they prepared months before. They were smart to plan where they could go.
I did not know that Kai

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In May 1940 The Netherlands is occupied and there are big changes for the Frank family. Restrictions keep mounting, both for individuals and for Otto's business.

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When they thought they were safe the german's had invaded the netherland's, in 1940. Thats how world war 2 stated.

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Anne, Margot, and Edith followed Otto Frank to the netherlands. They wanted to feel safe and to feel free.

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Hitler wanted to execute his plan to eliminate all of the jew's. He had killed many of innocent people.

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Hitler was the leader and what started the second war. He was a cruel and horrible man

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After getting married, Otto and Edith Frank settle in Frankfurt. They soon have children: Margot in 1926, and Anne in 1929.

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Anne Frank had a sister that was 3 1/2 years old. Hitler’s rise to power and growing antisemitism  put an end to the family’s carefree life.

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Anne Frank was a girl who had escaped the Nazis by hiding during the second war. After more than two years in hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps.