The Biography of Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who lived Amsterdam. Her diary

made her extremely famous.

Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 12thJune, 1929.

Her parents were Edith Frank and Otto Frank. She had a sister

named Margot, Margot was 3 years older than Anne, she often wished to be as beautiful as her sister. Anne and her family were

Jews.

It was very hard to be a Jew in Germany, so Anne and her

family moved to Amsterdam because the Germans didn’t

like the Jews, they blamed the Jews for everything, that had

gone wrong with their country.

For Anne’s 13th birthday, her parents gave her a diary, she called it Kitty

and she wrote in it everyday.

They moved to Holland in 1933 because Hitler came to power. Hitler did not like

the Jews.

In 1942, Anne had to go into hiding because the Germans started killing all

the Jews. They stayed in an annexe behind Otto’s work office, they would be

safe there.

The door to the annexe was hidden by a bookshelf. During the day, Anne and her

family could not look out the window, they could not talk, and they could not snore at night, if they did these things,

the Germans would find them and something tragic would happen to them.

A lady named Miep Gies brought them food, she

would come every few days. There was 4 other people staying with Anne and her family, these people where Peter Vann Dan, his mother and father and Fritz Pfeffer

They stayed in the secret hide-out for 2 years. But after this, someone told the

Germans where the Franks were hiding, and they were taken to a concentration camp. The girls were taken to a camp

called Bergen-Belsen, and the men were taken to Auschwitz

In March 1945, when Anne was 15 she and her sister sadly died of Typhus at the concentration camp.

Her mother died of starvation , but her

father still hadn’t died. He found Anne’s diary

and published it to honour of his daughters

dream to be a writer.