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Famous Cases: Anne Frank's Diary

Anne Frank was one of over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. She was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank. 

For the first 5 years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. After the NAZI seizure of power in 1933, they fled to Amsterdam.

The Germans occupied Amsterdam in may 1940, deporting Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centres in German-occupied Poland.

During the occupation, Anne and her family went to hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business. They stayed there for two years.

On August 4, 1944, the Gestapo (German Secret State Police) discovered the hiding place. The Franks were sent by train along with other Jewish prisoners to The Auschwitz Concentration Camp Complex. Due to their age, the two girls were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945, just a few weeks before British troops liberated it. The girls' mother, Edith, also died in Auschwitz. Only Otto, the father, survived the war.

                                       Bergen-Belsen COncentration Camp prisoners.

While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences. Found in the secret apartment after the family was arrested, the diary was kept for Anne by Miep Gies, one of the people who had helped hide the Franks. It was published after the war in many languages and is used in thousands of middle and high school curricula in Europe and the Americas.

Anne Frank has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust.

Adapted from <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005210>

Original DIary of Anne Frank.

Anne Frank's Life Interactive Timeline HERE

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