The Life of Anne Frank


In Frankfurt am Main, Germany on June 12, 1929 Edith and Otto Frank had a little girl. This girl would soon make a book from her diary, her name was Anneliese (Anne, for short). She was not an only child, Margot was three when Anne was born.
On July 12, 1942 Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday. Here is a phrase from when she got it:" I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support." But something happened way before that, in 1933 Adolf Hitler caused the anti-Jewish Nationalist Socialist which made the Franks flee to the Netherlands. Seven years later Hitler occupies the Netherlands.	This is Anne writing in her diary with Hitler in her mind.
July 6,1942 the Franks go into hiding where Otto works. They go into hiding because Margot gets a call on July 5, to report" for labor in Germany." On the 16th the Van Pels join them in the Secret Annex. Then a little ater dentist Fritz Pfeffer will join them.
Anne's diary helped her through many problems in the Secret Annex. she was writing to Kitty, she got her idea from Cissy van Marxweldt's "Joop ter Heul." On May 20,1944,Anne starts a thorough revision of her diary and ten weeks later, she manages to fill 324 loose pages with her careful rewrite.
The eight Jews that are were in hiding are betrayed on August 4,1944 at 10 am. The Nazi police were there and all eight of them were taken in a cattle truck to Weteringschan Prison. Karl Joseph Silberbauer, an Austrian Nazi forced them to give up all their valuables. He soon found out that Otto had been a lieutenant for Germany in WW1, so he was less hostile towards him. Kugler & Klieman were arrested for hiding Jews in their premises. Otto had been smart enough to give up his building to them because Nazi were taking them away. Miep and Bep were not arrested, but Miep was taken in for questioning .Four days later they were transported to Westerbork transit camp. They stayed there for a month and then was moved to Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They were the last to be transported from Westerbork to Auschwitz. Anne and Margot were then moved to Bergen-Belsen in 1944 of October. Bergen-Belsen is where thousand of women died of planned starvation and epidemics (without food, heat medicine or elementary sanitary conditions).	*These are work camps.*
March 1945 Anne and Margot die of typhus and weeks later the liberation starts. Everyone of the eight Jews that were in hiding died except Otto Frank. Fritz Pfeffer the dentist died in Neuengaime on December 20, 1944, and Edith Frank died January 6, 1945in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Mrs. Van Pels died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.	Otto Frank lived until he was 91. He married again to Elferd Geiringer also an Auschwitz survivor. Otto died August 19, 1980.
Today people act and think like Hitler. They think that God made a mistake and created Jews, colored, Asians, and other people who are not white. So they try to dispose of them all except whites. God created us equally and it should have stayed that way.
Anne got her wish except she isn't here to get credit for it. Her diary was published. Miep and Bep had given Otto her diary when they knew she was dead. Nowhere in the original printed version of "The Diary of a Young Girl" does it say that he had edited his daughters writing. "Apart from very few passages, which are of little interest to the reader ,the original text has been printed." Otto Frank stood by his fiction until the end of his life in1980. When asked what sections he had left out, he would answer steadfastly that he had limited "nothing essential, just passages about Anne's physical development and nasty remarks about her mother."	This is Anne's diary. It was a great help for her through the Holocaust. She has now made a book from her diary. It tells about life in the Secret Annex and outbursts with her mother.
People take for granted things in life but these Jews needed things like food, water, medicine, and shelter, we have these things , they didn't. So don't take these things for granted.