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Who Was She?

I have decided to read Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank was born in Germany on June 12th, 1929. Her full name was Annelies Marie Frank. Her parents were Otto H. Frank and Edith Frank, and her sister’s name was Margot. Anne was a young Jewish girl who lived through the war but unfortunately died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Anne’s family moved to Amsterdam to stay safe. In 1941, German forces invaded the Netherlands, forcing Anne to move from a public school, too an all Jewish school. On her 13th birthday, as one of her many gifts, she received a diary. On that same day she began to write in her new diary: “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” she wrote.

Not too long after her birthday, her sister Margot got a call and was faced with deportation. Even though the Franks were planning to go into hiding, they started to move a lot quicker after this call and went into hiding on July 6, 1942. Anne’s family was in hiding for 2 years. Her last diary entry was on August 1, 1944. 

A few days after that the Gestapo (Nazi Germany’s secret police). The Frank Family and the van Daans (the other family in hiding with the Franks) were taken to multiple places once they were caught, but their last stop was a concentration camp. Anne’s mother died first, then her sister, then herself. Anne died just weeks before the liberations of the concentration camp. Anne’s father was the only member of her family to survive the war.

This is a first-hand account of how Jews were treated throughout the war. Anne Frank didn’t know she, nor her diary would become world-famous after she died in a concentration camp in 1945. Not only did Anne Frank shows the world what Jews went through and how they suffered, but she also showed the world the strength of the human spirit.

Otto H. Frank found Anne’s. diary and decided to publish it. This book became famous worldwide because people could identify with it. People could feel what she was feeling.

 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Frank

https://www.reference.com/history/did-anne-frank-change-history-a345494e77efdb45

 

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