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.