Annelies “Anne” Marie Frank was born on June 12 1929 in Frankfurt, Weimar in Germany. She was the daughter of Otto Frank (1889-1980) and Edith Frank Hollander (1900-1945). She also had a sister, named Margot (1926-1945), who was three years older then her. Anne Frank was Jewish and became one of the million victims of the Holocaust. Anne Frank claims her fame by writing a diary Diary of Anne Frank that got published after she died. In that diary she expressed her hopes, fears, feelings and thoughts, she had during the Nazi persecution and World War II.
Anne Frank lived in Frankfurt until on March 13 1933 Adolf Hitler won the election and became chancellor. After the Nazis took control over Germany, the Frank family began to fear that they were not safe anymore. So they decided to go to Aachen, where Edith’s mother lived. Otto Frank stayed in Frankfurt and later he got an offer to become an important part of a business in Amsterdam, Netherland. So he moved there and organized for the rest of the family to come. Even with all the changes that had been going on it was hard for the family to leave Germany because it was their home.
In the fall of 1933 the rest of the Franks arrived in Amsterdam.
Meanwhile, Otto helped build up the business and Margot and Anne started their school life at the Montessori School where they found Jewish and also non-Jewish friends. The sisters lived a happy and normal childhood for the rest of the 30’s. But everything changed on May 10 in 1940 when Germany attacked the Netherlands and succeeded. Anne wrote in her diary:
“After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the German. Which is when the trouble started for the Jews....
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dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more
compelling than that of Anne Frank.”
And many more prominent figures praised her diary.
In 1995 a full-length version of Anne Frank’s diary got published. It included the sections that Otto removed. Anne’s father, together with some citizens, tried to save the secret annex and open it up to everybody. It is a part of the Anne Frank House. Another part was the Opekta warehouse. It’s one of Amsterdam’s main attractions for tourists. The Time magazine listed Anne Frank as a hero in The Most Important People of the Century in 1999.
Works Cited
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
2. http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/
3. http://history1900s.about.com/od/annefrank/p/AnneFrank.htm
4. http://www.biography.com/people/anne-frank-9300892
5. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005210
Anne Frank was born in 1929 just at the beginning of turmoil in German society. At the beginning of her life, Frank’s family was a relatively normal German-Jewish family living just outside of Frankfurt. Her father, Otto Frank, was a business owner and her sister, Margot Frank, was three years older than her. They moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933 because of the threat to their lives because of their Jewish Heritage.
...ble for publishing the diary and sharing his daughter's views(www.ushmm.org). Frank helped bring his daughter's story to become one of the most popular books in the world, along with opening the Anne Frank House. Otto Frank goes off to marry Elfriede(Fritzi) Markovits in 1953 and lives the remainder of his life with her in Switzerland. Frank took his last breath on August nineteenth, 1980 in Basel, Switzerland(www.biography.com). Otto Frank dealt with many hardships, but fought to overcame them, and ended up surviving the holocaust. The toll of losing his family impacted him greatly, his strength breaking when mentioning the horrors of the holocaust. In an interview before his death, Frank explains "I can no longer talk about how I felt when my family arrived on the train platform in Auschwitz and we were forcibly separated from each other."(www.annefrankguide.net).
Lots of families had to hide during holocaust to prevent from going to Auschwitz. One of those families where Anne Frank’s family. According to The World of Anne Frank website, Anne frank was a Jewish little girl born on June 12 1929 in Frankfurt Germany. Having only one older sister, Margot Frank, Anne came from a small family. Her and her family were in the upper middle class and was pretty wealthy. Her father, Otto Frank, was a lieutenant for the German army then later became businessman. The Franks thought that life was good and everything was fine, until they heard about what was going on around where they were living. Lots of people thou...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, they fled to the Netherlands. In 1940, the Nazi’s invaded the Netherlands. Two years later, they started to deport Jews to camps. Anne Frank’s family hid in a secret annex above her father’s office. They had to remain hidden and stay quiet at all times.
After getting married Otto and Edith Frank settled down in Frankfurt, Germany. They’d soon have their two children. Margrot in 1926, and Anne Frank three years later. In his writing, Otto Frank remembers that the relationship between Anne and her mother was “… not particularly good understanding …” Anne Frank says in her diary, “I need my mother to set a good example … but in most matters she’s an example of what not to do.”
During World War II, the Nazi regime, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, attempted to eliminate all the Jews and other “inferior peoples” of Europe. The Nazis and their collaborators killed millions of people, including six million Jewish people and other minority groups, such as 200,000 gypsies and 200,000 disabled people ("Introduction to the Holocaust”). This terrible period in history is now referred to as the Holocaust ("Background to the Holocaust”). A young girl named Anne Frank wrote one of the most notable Jewish texts from this period. Her optimism about the future should inspire the resolution of the modern religious and racial conflicts which stem from WWII era prejudices.
Anne Frank was born June 12 1929 in the German town of Frankfurt am Main. She grew up with her parents Edith Frank and Otto Frank and her older sister Margot. Her mother was born in Aachen on January 16, 1900. Her father was born in Frankfurt am Main on May 12, 1889. Lastly her sister was born in Frankfurt am Main on February 16, 1926.
Anne Frank was a thirteen year old Jewish girl who was forced into hiding in 1942. Her family and another family, the Van Daans, hid in the back of her father, Otto Frank's office building in what they called the "Secret Annex" for the next two years, until they were discovered by a Nazi group called the Gestapo and arrested. It was during her time in the Secret Annex that Anne wrote in a diary that she had named Kitty, telling it of her experiences in the the annex, reported the position of the war and its most memorible events, and shared her personal feelings on the situation. The diary became an outlet throug...
The Diary of Anne Frank is a true story based in Germany. In July 1942 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Anne, Mr.Frank, Mrs.Frank, Margo, Peter, Miep, Mr.Van Daan, and Mrs.Van Daan were sent to an annex above Mr.Frank's business to hide. They were very scared and fearful for their from the Nazis. They are Jewish, and the Nazis wanted to kill Jews. There are many different similarities and differences.
With the rise of Hitler, Otto Frank, Anne’s father, moved his family to Amsterdam in order to escape the escalating persecution of Jews. Anne attended Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School and throughout the 1930s experienced a normal childhood, free of anti-semitism. For her thirteenth birthday, Anne received the diary that would encase her everlasting story. On July 5th, 1942, Anne’s sister, Margot, received a notice to be deported to a work camp, leaving no choice but to go into hiding immediately. The Secret Annex, their place of hiding, was located in Otto’s Amsterdam office....
World War II is one the most significant events in the entire human history, and it has an enormous influence to the world until today. People’s life had been changed a lot during World War II, and that provided a lot good topic for literary works. There were lots of movies and books were talking about the holocausts and the fighting in battle. From these great works, people can learn and understand more about World War II. The Diary of Anne Frank, a movie about lives of a group of hiding Jews due to Holocaust, it not only showed the cruelty of Nazi, but also showed the emotion changes of a teenage girl.
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Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Because of their Jewish faith, Anne Frank and her family fled Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1933 to avoid persecution. After Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1942, the family spent two years living in a small hidden room in Amsterdam in order to elude capture by Nazi occupation forces. They were discovered in 1944 and arrested. Anne was sent to a concentration camp, where she died the following year. Her famous diary of the two years she spent in hiding was later found in the room where she and her family had lived. Anne’s father, Otto, had taken the family to Amsterdam, where he had established a small food products business. When Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940, the Franks once again became subject to escalating anti-Semitic persecution. In 1941 Anne was required to transfer from a public school to a Jewish school. Secretly, Otto Frank prepared a hiding place by sealing off several rooms at the rear of his Amsterdam office building. A swinging bookcase hid the rooms Frank concealed.
II. Contrary to the light and amusing tone of the first few entries of Anne Frank, her revelation of her family background uncovers sneak-peeks to the Jewish life in the Second World War, including the restrictive laws implemented by the Nazis against the particular group of people. Prior to Anne’s first diary entry, the Franks, namely Otto, Edith, and their children, Anne and Margot, had emigrated to Holland from Germany to escape Hitler’s propaganda of Anti-Semitism. However, soon, they realized that they had not been liberated yet from the claws of discrimination when Anne’s elder sister, Margot, was summoned by the S.S., the elite Nazi guards, for a call-up, implying that she would be sent to a concentration camp.
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.