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Annelies Marie, other known as Anne Frank, was looked at, by some people,
as an immature child wanting attention. She never really got to grow
out of this immaturity. Her childhood was just like any other
child's. Although this would soon change since she was living
when the Nazis were coming to power. Anne was a Jewish girl living
in Germany, where the Nazis were arresting the Jewish people.
When Anne and her family was captured they were taken to different
camps, Anne and her sister in one, her dad in another, and her mom
somewhere else. Anne Frank is famous because she kept a diary and
wrote things in it about what was happening during the time of the
Nazis, and the Holocaust. |
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Anne Frank was born on June 12,1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was
one of those girls really craved for attention. When Anne was little
she would climb up on the table so everyone could see her and give her the
attention she craved, especially if there where pretty things on it
that others were looking at. Anne and her sister Margot loved
visiting their grandmother, which they did often, so you can tell they had
a pretty good relationship with their family. Anne loved to
watch movies with her friends, too. She sometimes made invitations
for her friends to come and watch movies. On Anne's Thirteenth
Birthday, which was her last in freedom, she had her friends
other and they watch Anne's favorite movie, "Rin Tin
Tin". There are many photographs of Anne and her family,
because Anne' s father Otto Frank loved taking them. He took many
photos of Anne and Margot playing with their friends. |
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| Because of the Nazis searching for the Jews, to take to
concentration camps, Anne's family fled to Amsterdam in the year of 1933.
Once Anne got there, she could barely remember her life in
Germany, even though she was there for thirteen years. Anne
quickly felt at home in Amsterdam. In 1940, Germany invaded
Holland. On July 6, 1942, the day after Margot received a
"call up" to report to a "labor camp", the
Frank family, and four others, went into hiding in rooms above Otto
Frank's offices . |
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| One nice warm summer day, a German
car drew up to the driver of Otto's offices around 10:00 or 10:30.
Some officers got out of the car and ran in the building. They asked
a man named van Maaren a question, his answer was
"Upstairs". The officers then went up to the next
floor. One of the officers opened the main office door and found a
woman named Meip Gies and two others, they were some friends and
employees of Otto Frank. Finally, the officers then went over
to a bookcase, it was the door to the Frank's hiding place.
One of the officers then pulled on the bookcase and it swung open
revealing the Frank family. The Franks were then arrested and taken
to Bergen-Belsen. |
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| When Anne and Margot where at Bergen-Belsen,
there was a wall built of barbed wire and straw to separate the
people there. Anne had a friend on the opposite side of the
wall. |
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| Anne Frank died in
Bergen-Belsen. She got a disease called typhus caused by
rickettsia, a micro-organism transmitted by the bite of fleas or
lice. She died in the March of 1945 at the age of fifteen. |
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| Anne got her
diary on June 12,1042 for her thirteenth birthday, which was her last
in freedom. Anne loved her diary. If you wish to read some of her
entrees Click Here. |
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made some imaginary friends while in hiding. Her dairy she named Kitty.
Here is something he wrote to Kitty.
-July 15, 1944
"Dear Kitty,
In everything I do, I can watch myself as if I
were a stranger. I can stand across from the everyday Anne and, without
being baised or making excuses, watch what she's doing, both the good and
the bad."
Anne called her diary Kitty and as she started to
document her innermost feelings she recorded one of the darkest periods in
human history, the Holocaust. But no matter what happened Anne never lost
faith in humanity.
Anne and Margot wrote many sisterly letters to
each other, Anne wrote some of these in her diary, here is one set of
them:
"Dear Anne,
After your letter yesterday I have the unpleasant
feeling that you will have prickings of conscience when you visit Peter;
but really there is no reason for this. In my heart of hearts I feel that
I have the right to share mutual confidence with someone, but I could not
bear Peter in that role yet.
Therefore you really needn't pity me. Now that
you've found companionship, enjoy it as much as you can."
"Dear Margot,
I think the best thing we can do is simply to
wait and see what happens. It can't be very long before Peter and I come
to a definite decision, either to go on as before to be different. Just
which way to go I don't know myself, and I don't bother to look beyond my
own nose. But I shall certainly do one thing, if Peter and I decide to be
friends, I shall tell him that you are very fond of him too and would
always be prepared to help him should the need arise. The latter may not
be what you wish, but I don't care now; I don't know what peter thinks
about you, but I shall ask him then. I'm sure it's not bad- the opposite!
You are always welcome to join us in the attic, or wherever we are; you
honestly won't disturb us because I feel we have a silent agreement to
talk only in the evening when its dark. Keep your courage up! Like I do.
Although it's not always easy, your time may come sooner than you
think." |
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Anne's father survived war. When he met up again with Meip Gies she gave
him Anne's diary and said he should get it published. Anne's diary was
published in1947, in almost seventy languages. This is the story of Anne
Frank, or some of it. Anne was a very brave girl her whole life. Over one
MILLION children died in the Holocaust. Anne was one of them. |