Anne Frank

By:Trevor Mitchell

&Delaney Raye

Full name: Annelies Marie Frank Born: June 12, 1929 Born in: Frankfurt, Germany Parents: Otto Frank & Edith Frank-Hollander Siblings: Margot – 3 years older Descent: Jewish-German

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor Anti- Semitism causes hate of Jews Otto’s job is in financial trouble Franks move to Netherlands in 1930s

Moved to Amsterdam, Holland Anne Frank was 4 when they arrived Franks and Goslars became friends

◦ Goslars had a daughter, Hanneli, who was Anne’s age

Hanneli and Anne went to same school and became good friends.

Met for the first time in 1934 Played games like hopscotch and marbles Recalls that Anne loved writing in diaries

before the one she received in hiding Remembers Anne liked to dislocate her

shoulder to get some attention Was sad when Anne and her family

disappeared

Invade in 1940 Restrictions on Jews passed

◦ Unable to have own businesses◦ Separate schools◦ Must wear Star of David at all times◦ Shipped of to ‘work camps’

Franks opt for hiding rather than being shipped to a camp

Pack up a few days prior to leaving On July 6, 1942, Franks and Van Pels enter

the Secret Annex

Was a hidden area in the same building as Otto Frank’s old business

Miep Gies and three other past employees help care for the families

Franks and others must stay silent during day so they are not heard

Shortly before going into hiding, Anne received a diary

Naming it ‘Kitty’, she wrote in it throughout her stay in the Secret Annex

She used it to record her feelings and memories until the hiding place was discovered

On Friday, August 4, 1944, Anne, her family, and the others were found

The office building was raided by the Security Police

The Franks, Van Pels, and Mr. Pfeffer are arresting and shipped off to Auschwitz

Anne and Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen in October 1944

Both died in March 1945 from Typhus Bergen-Belsen was liberated a few weeks

later The only survivor from the Secret Annex

was Otto, Anne’s father

After the Franks were taken away, one of those who helped them, Miep Gies, found Anne’s diary scattered in the Secret Annex

Saving it, she returned it to Otto when he returned to them

After reading through it, he chose to send parts of it to be published into what many today know of as Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl.

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