Anne Frank Life And Times


 


Anne Frank was born a Jew on June 12, 1929.  she was born to Otto and Edith Frank. Both from respect german-jewish families. She had a older sister by the name of Margot Frank; she was two year's older than Anne.  Anne attend Montessori School.  It was a non-Jewish school and jewish school.  Anne and Margot were very smart, and had many friends.  The Franks moved from Holland to Amsterdam in 1933 because of nazi rule.
     Mr. Frank  owned a business and made partners with a German.
Jews had to register their businesses, and later, surrender them to non-jewish people. Luckily Mr. Frank  put the business under Mr. Franks German friends name. 
    After one summer recess Anne and her sister came in and all of a sudden wasn't allowed to go to a non-jewish school.  Jewish people six years and up  had to ware a yellow star.  This was  know as the begging of the Holocaust.  Many things were going on, such as their were mass arrest of Jews, by 1942.
     Mr. and Mrs. Frank were planning to go into hiding.  One day on July 5, 1942 the Franks  received a call-up notice.  Anne thought it was for her father, but it wasn't It was for her sister Margot.  After the  Franks received the notice they decided to go into  hiding. They were going to hide in a attic above Mr. Franks office.  The Franks went into hiding on June 12, 1942 on Anne's  13 birthday.The Franks hid in a Secret Anex. They invited the Van Dames to live with  them in the Anex to get away from the violence. The Franks and the Van Dames lived in a five room house. Shown below is Anne's room. 

            Before Anne went into hiding she was given a diary which she kept the hole two years.  Five months after the Franks and Van Dames moved in a eighth person moved in by the name of Dussel moved in.  Their were many arguments between the eight. Come to find out Peter Van Dame likes Anne and starts hitting on her. The arguments between the families make them grow farther apart.
       On August 4, 1944 at 10:00 a.m. the jews were discovered. All six of the jews were separated.  Except for the Frank sisters.  They were shipped to three different work camps in a year.  At work camps people died of being worked to death, or of the cold, they also died of the starvation. the sisters worked at a work camp in Belson Benard for five months. Margot died in January of 1945. Two months later Anne Frank died March, 1945. 
       Anne's  farther Otto Frank was the only one of the eight who survied.  He was released from a work camp in 1945 an d went back to the secrete anex and countied his business. He  later married.
    Miep one of the secretaries was cleaning the anex when she found  Anne's diary.  She didn't read it.   She gave the diary to Mr. Frank two months later he published it.
       Otto Frank died on August, 19,1980 at the age of 91.
     Anne Frank was a hero to many, and she was a great writer. She has inspired millions around the  world. I would just like to say she's my hero. Considering she was 13 years old and it's easy to relate to.
 
 

RESEARCHED BY:
                 STARLA MASSEY

RESOURCES USED:
                             ANNE FRANKS DIARY
                             THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL