Anne Frank was a Jewish diarist, who was known for the diary she wrote during the hiding from the anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam. during World War II (1939-1945). Anne's diary describes with wisdom and humor the two long  she spent in seclusion, before the death at the age of 15.  This story is about Annelies Marie Frank from the time she was born until the age of 15.
Annelies Marie Frank was born June 12, 1929, in Frankfort am Main, Germany. they left there in 1933 to escape the anti-Jewish measures of National Socialism, also called Nazism. her father, Otto, took the family to Amsterdam where he owned a food business . on Anne's 13th birthday she got a diary, she began writing down her thoughts and experiences in the form of a letter to an imaginary friend. A month later the family went into hiding. Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940. then the franks once again were a subject to the anti-Semitic Persecution. in 1941 Anne was forced to go to a Jewish school. Secretly, Otto Frank prepared a hiding place by blocking off several rooms in the back of his building. The rooms Otto made were hidden by a swinging bookcase. during the course of the twenty-five months she wrote down all her thoughts and experiences while she was hiding. her diary tells about her life times during the years in hiding. 
They were the same age, lived on opposite sides of the same street and had a very similar family background. Little wonder than Anne Frank and Eva Gardner quickly became very good friends after the first meeting in Amsterdam on February 1940. there was one other thing that the two 11-year olds had in common-one that the German SS were concerned. THEY WERE BOTH JEWISH! 
       On July 1942, the marauding of the German forces who invaded Holland were hell-bent on rounding up all the Jewish families and  sending them off to the gas chambers. The parents and both the girls knew they had to go into hiding.'' I suddenly became aware that friends weren't acting like friends anymore " she recalls" And even on the playground at school, people I thought were friends of mine suddenly didn't want to play with me any more." the sheerer horror of Auschwitz meant that, for many years Eva spoke about her own experiences very seldom. That way, she felt  she had a chance of keeping the terrible memories at bay. A role which finds her in Edinburgh today. Where she has the chance to recount her experiences to secondary school students from across the city. although        both remarkably managed to leave the Polish camp alive, Anne was later to die at another camp. The story of course become known the world over, thanks to her diaries she wrote during hiding. there they lived with the knowledge that they were next for the gas chambers. both of the girls had to survive a diet of moldy bread, suffer beatings by the guards, fend off the freezing in the barest of clothing, endure humiliating delousing, watch the rampant spread of disease..... and worst of all, see friends die in front of them every single day despite the feeling able to talk about her experiences now, Eva Schloss, as she became, admits that the horror will never fully go away. "Its been more than55 years ago now but I can still clearly remember things. What we experienced was just too awful to ever to be able to forget. I remember she was a lively girl, but we were both part of a larger group of friends who used to get to together all the time," Eva recalls now. "I used to see her every day. My difficulty, though , was knowing the Dutch language." I couldn't really under stand what the reasons were, I just found  it all completely strange and very hurtful. I wasn't only a child and it upset me allot. Before Eva began working with Anne Frank Educational Trust, where she gained the chance to promote the anti-Jewish message to the young people of today. Eva is also here to see the Anne Frank Exhibition at Edinburgh's City Art Center in Market Street. And with Holocaust Memorial Day taking place later this moth Eva who ended up becoming Anne Franks posthumous step-sister when Anne's father married Eva's father Eva's mother hopes and prays that the message is hitting home. "For years I had this recurring nightmare when I would wake up sweating and trembling, the far from frail " grandmother says. "But the time has helped. And I know it's a very important story to tell".        
        Between the ages of 13 & 15, Anne made short stories, fairy tales, essays, and the start of novels. During her two tears in hiding, five notebooks and 300 loose sheets of paper survived the war.
Despite the growing threat of war, she lived a normal life much like any other Dutch girl for the next few years she attended a Montessori school and was an ordinary student en many ways, like having the ability to draw from other experiences than other children. Several weeks later Margot received a letter to report to the reception center for the Westbork concentration camp.  

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