She enjoyed her home, friends, holidays at the shore. Anne was a good student and liked school, even though she sometimes got into trouble for talking in class.
On Annes thirteenth birthday life for all Jews was getting increasingly more difficult. Her most special gift was a red plaid diary. She immediately started writing her private thoughts. No longer could Jewish children even attend school.
They and their parents could only shop at certain stores from With the help of friends and co-workers. The only clothes Anne was allowed to take with were: 2 vests, 3 pair pants, two pair of stockings, dress skirt, jacket, shorts, lace up shoes, wool cap, and scarf. The Franks unfortunately could take only the necessary items, so not to look suspicious. Therefore, the left behind most of their personal belongings. Eventually four other people joined the Franks in hiding at the Annex.
Diary life in the Annex was tense and always fearful that the Germans would find them. However, after a period of time they all settled into a routine. Anne's beloved diary, which was saved from the Secret Annex by helper Miep Gies and returned to Anne's father Otto after the war.
Margot Frank receives a call-up notice from the Nazis to return to Germany to work in a labour camp. The next day, the Frank family go into hiding in the Secret Annex above Otto's offices. The annex is raided by the security police following an anonymous tip-off. All occupants and two helpers are arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp. The occupants of the annex are transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the last train to leave Westerbork.
Anne and her sister Margot are transported from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Anne and Margot both die of typhus, only a few days apart. Bergen Belsen camp is liberated by British troops on 15 April. Hitler commits suicide as Soviet troops close in on his bunker in Berlin. Otto Frank was the only occupant of the Secret Annex to survive.
She also spent time on her appearance: curling her dark hair and manicuring her nails. While in hiding Anne hoped that she would one day be able to return to school and she dreamt of spending a year in Paris and another in London. With no friends to confide in, Anne used the diary to express her fear, bordedom, and the struggles she faced growing up. Gerrit Bolkestein, the Dutch minister of education, art and science, who was exiled in London, stated that after the war he wished to collect eyewitness accounts of the experiences of the Dutch people under the German occupation.
Anne immediately began rewriting and editing her diary with the view to future publication, calling it The Secret Annex. She did this at the same time as keeping her original, more private diary.
He had a small map of Normandy that he marked with little red pins. On 4 August , everyone in the annex was arrested. They were betrayed by an anonymous source who had reported their existence to the German authorities. Anne was first sent to Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands, before being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On August 4, , after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo , the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster who has never been definitively identified.
From there, in September , the group was transported by freight train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp complex in German-occupied Poland. Anne and Margot Frank were spared immediate death in the Auschwitz gas chambers and instead were sent to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northern Germany.
In February , the Frank sisters died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen; their bodies were thrown into a mass grave. Several weeks later, on April 15, , British forces liberated the camp. Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz in January Hermann van Pels died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz soon after his arrival there in ; his wife is believed to have likely died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic in the spring of Peter van Pels died at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria in May Fritz Pfeffer died from illness in late December at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany.
Margot Frank also kept a diary, but it was never found. Otto Frank knew that Anne wanted to become an author or journalist, and had hoped her wartime writings would one day be published. Anne had even been inspired to edit her diary for posterity after hearing a March radio broadcast from an exiled Dutch government official who urged the Dutch people to keep journals and letters that would help provide a record of what life was like under the Nazis.
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