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Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who became famous from the diary she wrote during the Second World War.

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2. Place and time of birth and her close relative.

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2. Place and time of birth and her close relative.

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She was born in the German city of Frankfurt in 1929.She had a sister, Margot, who was three years older than her.

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Before the Second World War, during the great economic crisis of the thirties, things  were going badly in Germany. Unemployment was going high and many people were getting poorer and poorer.

At the same time Adolf Hitler and his National party were gaining support by promising  to solve the country’s problems. The Nazis hated among other groups the Jews as well. They used to blame ordinary people of these groups  for the  economic problems. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, hostility to the Jews increased.

When the hostility to the Jews increased and special laws against the Jews were passed, Anne’s parents, Otto and Edith, decided to flee to the Netherlands. They settled in Amsterdam, Merwedeplein where her father started a new business.

Anne soon felt at home. She went to school, learned Dutch and made new friends. She was happy in her new place.

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Six years later, war broke out across Europe. In 1939 Germany, under the rule of the Nazi  invaded Poland and in 1940 the German army occupied the Netherlands.  The Dutch government passed laws similar to those in Germany such as    “ Jews have to wear a Jewish star, Jews have to hand in their bicycles. Jews are not allowed in the tram. Jews are not allowed to ride in cars. Jews must attend Jewish schools and so on and so forth.”

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5. The family were hiding near her father’s workplace

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5. The family were hiding near her father’s workplace

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Meanwhile, the Nazis had tightened their grip, organising raids and arresting and deporting Jews to the so-called labour camps which in reality were low cost factories, concentration and death camps. In the summer of 1942 after Anne’s sister, Margot, was ordered to report for the so-called labour camp, the Frank family hid behind Otto’s  business on the Prinsengracht. They were joined there later by the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer. The eight people in hiding were helped by Otto’s staff and friends.

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6. She started writing her diary depicting the Jew’s suffering and her thoughts….

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6. She started writing her diary depicting the Jew’s suffering and her thoughts….

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In her diary, Anne wrote her thoughts and feelings about living in the hiding place, the war, and people’s  sufferings. Among other things she wrote:

“I feel bad for lying in a warm bed while my dearest friends are out there somewhere, thrown or fallen to the ground. And that only because they are Jews.”

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7. They were all arrested and the helpers kept the diaries in their safe hands.

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7. They were all arrested and the helpers kept the diaries in their safe hands.

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Before having  finished her diary, however, their hiding place was discovered and all eight were captured on the 4th of August, 1944.They were deported to the concentration and death camp  Auschwitz-Birkenau. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, two of the helpers found the diary Ann had left behind. Miep kept it in case Anne ever came back.

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8. Only her father survived and he turned the diary into book to carry out her wish.

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8. Only her father survived and he turned the diary into book to carry out her wish.

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But she didn’t come back. In February 1945, Anne and Margot died of typhus in appalling conditions in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Anne was only 15 years old when she died. Of the eight people, only Anne’s father, Otto, survived. When he read Anne’s diary after the war,  it made a deep impression to him. He discovered how much writing had meant to her. As Ann wrote in her diary; “No one who doesn’t write can know how fine it is. And if I don’t have the talent to write for newspapers or books, well then I can always go on writing for myself.” Otto realizing how Anne had hoped to publish a book,  he carried out her wish.

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9. Anna Frank’s diary has been translated into more than 70 languages

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9. Anna Frank’s diary has been translated into more than 70 languages

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Anne’s story about life in hiding and the war is read all over the world. Her diary has been translated into more than 70 languages. The hiding place is now a museum and welcomes more than a million visitors a year.

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Feeling so lonely | Anne Frank video diary | Episode 2 | Anne Frank House

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Who was Anne Frank? | Anne Frank House | Explained

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My best present | Anne Frank video diary | Episode 1 | Anne Frank House

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Anne Frank's only existing film images  Anne Frank House