Background
Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank) was born on June 12, 1929 in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was the second child of Otto and Edith Frank. Anne had a sister named Margot Betti Frank who was three years older than her. She was a Jewish German girl. She kept a diary and wrote about her time in WW2. They thought of Germany as their home and found it difficult to move to Amsterdam in 1933. They wanted to get away from the anti-Semitism of the
Nazis who were new to power. Otto established a Dutch firm of Opekta, a company which made and sold pectin (a product used to make jelly). The other members of the Frank family followed and by 1934, everyone was in Amsterdam. Since the prosecution of Jews in the Netherlands was similar to Germany, the Franks knew they might die in the near future. Unable to escape when the borders were closed, the only way to escape the Nazis was to go into hiding. On the morning of August 4, 1944, they were arrested. On September 3, 1944, Anne and all those who had been hiding in the Annex were shipped on the very last train leaving Westerbork for Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, the group was separated and were soon transported to other camps. Anne and her sister Margot were shipped to the same camp. Both Anne and Margot, her sister, died in a typhus epidemic in March 1945, only weeks before the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover.
Annotated Map of Anne Frank's Life
LegendRed- Frankfurt. Anne was born and grew up here till she 12.
Purple-Amsterdam. Anne lived here after leaving Germany. Their annex was here. Green-Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne and her Sister Margot spent the last months here. They both died from a typhus epidemic. |
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How many people were in the annex all together and who were they?
There were 8 people in the annex all together. They were Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Edith Frank, Otto Frank, Auguste van Pels, Peter van Pels, Hermann van Pels, (called the van Daans in Anne's published diary) and Fritz Pfeffer (called Albert Dussel in the diary).
Involvement in World War TwoAnne wasn’t a major part of World War 2. She is famous for her
diary which talks about how about how she lived in cramped and stifling living conditions as well as conflicts between the eight that lived together in hiding. Also among the two years and one month that Anne lived in the Secret Annex, she wrote about her hopes, her fears, and her character. She felt misunderstood by those around her and was constantly trying to make herself a better person. When she first got her diary she wrote about her daily life and when she went into hiding, there wasn’t much to do so she wrote until she used up all the pages. When she’d finished her diary, she starting using loose pages and slipped them in. Anne wrote her diary from her 13th birthday on June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. Anne was 13 years old when she went into hiding and she was 15 when she was arrested. |
ReferencingAnne Frank - A Biography of
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