Anne Frank Biography

Anne Frank (1929- 1945) Anne Frank was born to the parents of Otto Frank and Edith Hollander in 1929. She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Germany.

___________________________________________________________________ As a child she was Jewish. She had

president of the group he was in called

many friends that were Jewish too. Anne

the Nazis. Soon Hitler came to the

and her friends were about 10 years old

conclusion that Jewish people were the

when Adolph Hitler came into power of

cause to any sickness or any bad feeling

Germany. He was made head or

to Germans.

___________________________________________________________________ Hitler started making rules that Jewish

movies and walk to friends houses, but

people couldn't go certain places like

as Hitler gained more power and made

parks or even sit on public benches.

more rules Anne and her friends couldn't

Anne and her friends liked to go to the

go see movies anymore.

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Hitler soon made Jews wear the yellow

they would be put in prison, or even

star of David that said "Jude" meaning

worse, killed. In Anne's village or

Jewish. Every Jew had to wear one,

neighborhood even people who were not

including Anne, on their coats and all

Jewish were wearing the stars, standing

their clothes that were visable to the

up for the Jews.

public. If the Jews didn't wear the stars

______________________________________________________________________ The Nazis were angered by this. They hated it so they started taking the non-

jews who wore the star of David to concentration camps in Auchwitz. At the

camps the had jobs, very hard, jobs for

They also had prison cells. But worst of

the prisoners that worked them to death.

all they had gas chambers.

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Hitler made the Jews go to

hiding in the top two floors of Otto

different schools then the non- jewish

Frank's office building along with the Van

children. Anne and her sister Margot

Pels family. While in hiding another

went to Jewish Secondary School now

person joined the Frank and Van Pels

known as the Anne Frank School. In

families in hiding. His name was Fritz

1942 Anne and her family went into

Pfeffer. He was a dentist.

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The Franks went into hiding because Margot Frank got a call up notice to work

for the Nazis in Germany at concentration camps.

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In hiding the Franks, Van Pels, and

because it would mean that they were

Pfeffer had 4 helpers who got them there

hiding. During these long silences Otto

things like, books, news, and food.

Frank and Hermann Van Pels, the

During the day the Anne had to be silent

father's of the children Margot and Anne

and sitting still in her room even if she

Frank and Peter Van Pels, would give the

had to use the bathroom because if the

children work to do like Mathematics

workers were in the building they

problems and Reading work because

couldn't walk around because it made to

Anne, Margot, nor Peter could go to

much noise or use the sink or the toilet

school.

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On August 4th 1944 Anne was helping Peter with his studies when all of the

sudden a man came up the staircase hollering with a gun pointed at the

Franks, Van Pels, and Pfeffer. That day

exhaustion, Auguste Van Pels died in

they were brougt to concentration camps

transport from Bergen Belsen, the camp

in Auchwitz. Otto Frank was put to work,

that Margot and Anne were kept at, to

Peter Van Pels was put on a death walk,

Theresienstadt. Sadly, Margot and Anne

Anne and Margot were sentenced to a

both died in March 1945 of a disease

jail cell, Hermann Van Pels was killed in

called typhus.

the gas chamber, Edith Frank died of

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After the war Otto Frank was "released"

changed most of the names and

by the Nazis. Otto goes home and finds

published it. Now Anne's diary is famous

out that no one else that hid with him in

and published, and written in thousands

the Secret Annex is coming home. Miep

of different languages.

Gies one of the helpers handed Otto Anne's famous diary. Otto read it, _______________________________________________________________________

1926- Margot is born

hiding

1929- Anne is born

1944- Anne and her family are put into

1936- Hitler comes into power

concentration camps

1942- Margot recieves a call up

1945- Anne and Margot die of typhus

1942- Anne and her family go into

1945- Otto Frank comes home.