Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
June 12th 1942 : Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
"I lived in Frankfurt until I was four. Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933 . . . My mother, Edith Hollander Frank went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent to Aachen to stay with our grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot." (June 20, 1942)
July 5th 1942 : Margot receives a call-up notice to report for deportation to a labour camp. The family goes into hiding the next day. July 6th 1942 : The Frank family moves into the "Secret Annex."
" So there we were, father mother and I walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their face that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself (Written: July 9, 1942) "
July 13th 1942 : The van Pels family, another Jewish family originally from Germany, joins the Frank family in hiding. November 16th 1942 : Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families. August 4th 1944 : The residents of the Secret Annex are betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police station in Amsterdam and eventually to the Westerbork transit camp.
August 8th 1944 : They are all taken to the camp at Westerbork.
September 3rd 1944 : The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed cattle car to Auschwitz, on the last transport ever to leave Westerbork.
September 6th 1944 : Hermann van Pels is gassed.
October 6th 1944 : Anne and Margot Frank are sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
February or March 1945 : Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of each other.
After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. Nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus in March of 1945 at Bergen-Belsen, only a few weeks before the war ended. She was fifteen years old.
Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.
Anne was a very caring teenager, in one of her diary entries she wrote : "It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more" - July 15, 1944
Anne Frank was a wonderful caring teenager she is admired by many people worldwide.
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.