Anne Frank Childhood

Anne Frank was a young but bright girl. She was born June 12, 1945 in Frankfurt, Germany. She lived with her mom Edith Frank, her father Otto Frank, and her sister Margot. They were upper-middle class with a religiously diverse neighborhood, near the outskirts of Germany. During the 1930s Adolf Hitler became Germany’s leading political force winning control over Germany’s government in 1933. After the Franks moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands to flee from the German, they had freedom and could start a new life. Anne attended Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School and started living a normal life, until September 1, 1939. Nazi, Germany invaded Poland and started World War ll. May 10, 1940 Germany attacked the Netherlands. As Anne said “After May

When Margot got a letter said that she must report to a NAzi work camp in germany that's when the family went into hiding, in Otto Frank’s company building (Secret Annex). For two years the Franks were hiding without stepping out of the dark. It was like for us middle schoolers sitting in a tornado drill for an hour. By the time it was 1944 Anne had wrote about her wishes and experiences. She wrote that she’s “...reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die” (“Anne Frank Biography”). On August 4, 1944 a German police officer and the Dutch Nazis stormed into the annex and took everyone who was in hiding. They were shipped to Camp Westerbrook and then transferred a month later to Auschwitz death camp in Poland. This is the last time Otto Frank saw his wife and daughters. Anne was again transferred after all the hauling of heavy stone and grass matts to Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Edith was left in Auschwitz and died in January of 1945 at the age of 44. In Bergen Belsen food was dearth and disease began to

And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty shall end.” Anne knew that after the holocaust it will teach many and will be for the better. She knew that after all this barbarity it will all be for the good of the world, and that all the atrocity shall be put to an end. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive, and at the end he returned home to Amsterdam. He found Anne’s diary and was amazed at what he had discovered. He had no idea that her thoughts and feelings were so deep. Her writings revealed a teenage girl with creativity, wisdom, depth of emotion, and power far beyond her years (“Anne Frank Biography”). Otto published it on June 25, 1947 and lived to be 91. It is still today one of the most read books about the Jewish experience in the Holocaust. Being able to sustain the attitude and braveness she did during the Holocaust, is now teaching young kids about the hardships of the 1900s. When Otto Frank decided to publish Anne’s diary in 1950 it was the most sensational thing he could have ever done. “You’ve known for a long time that my greatest wish is to be a journalist, and later on, a famous writer...In any case, after the war i’d like to publish a book called The Secret Annex” May 11, 1944