anne frank biography
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This document is about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank. She was alive during World War II. She was an inspirational person who wrote a diary that expressed what it was like during the War. This takes place in Germany, and Holland, in 1929- 1950. By Juliet StauffTRANSCRIPT
Anne Frank (1929- 1945)
Anne Frank was born to the parents of Otto Frank and Edith Hollander in 1929. She
was born in Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Germany.
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As a child she was Jewish. She had
many friends that were Jewish too. Anne
and her friends were about 10 years old
when Adolph Hitler came into power of
Germany. He was made head or
president of the group he was in called
the Nazis. Soon Hitler came to the
conclusion that Jewish people were the
cause to any sickness or any bad feeling
to Germans.
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Hitler started making rules that Jewish
people couldn't go certain places like
parks or even sit on public benches.
Anne and her friends liked to go to the
movies and walk to friends houses, but
as Hitler gained more power and made
more rules Anne and her friends couldn't
go see movies anymore.
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Hitler soon made Jews wear the yellow
star of David that said "Jude" meaning
Jewish. Every Jew had to wear one,
including Anne, on their coats and all
their clothes that were visable to the
public. If the Jews didn't wear the stars
they would be put in prison, or even
worse, killed. In Anne's village or
neighborhood even people who were not
Jewish were wearing the stars, standing
up for the Jews.
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The Nazis were angered by this. They
hated it so they started taking the non-
jews who wore the star of David to
concentration camps in Auchwitz. At the
camps the had jobs, very hard, jobs for
the prisoners that worked them to death.
They also had prison cells. But worst of all they had gas chambers.
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Hitler made the Jews go to
different schools then the non- jewish
children. Anne and her sister Margot
went to Jewish Secondary School now
known as the Anne Frank School. In 1942
Anne and her family went into hiding in
the top two floors of Otto Frank's office
building along with the Van Pels
family. While in hiding another person
joined the Frank and Van Pels families in
hiding. His name was Fritz Pfeffer. He
was a dentist.
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The Franks went into hiding because
Margot Frank got a call up notice to work
for the Nazis in Germany at
concentration camps.
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In hiding the Franks, Van Pels, and
Pfeffer had 4 helpers who got them there
things like, books, news, and food.
During the day the Anne had to be silent
and sitting still in her room even if she
had to use the bathroom because if the
workers were in the building they
couldn't walk around because it made to
much noise or use the sink or the toilet
because it would mean that they were
hiding. During these long silences Otto
Frank and Hermann Van Pels, the
father's of the children Margot and Anne
Frank and Peter Van Pels, would give the
children work to do like Mathematics
problems and Reading work because
Anne, Margot, nor Peter could go to
school.
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On August 4th 1944 Anne was helping
Peter with his studies when all of the
sudden a man came up the staircase
hollering with a gun pointed at the
Franks, Van Pels, and Pfeffer. That day
they were brougt to concentration camps
in Auchwitz. Otto Frank was put to work,
Peter Van Pels was put on a death walk,
Anne and Margot were sentenced to a
jail cell, Hermann Van Pels was killed in
the gas chamber, Edith Frank died of
exhaustion, Auguste Van Pels died in
transport from Bergen Belsen, the camp
that Margot and Anne were kept at, to
Theresienstadt. Sadly, Margot and Anne
both died in March 1945 of a disease
called typhus.
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After the war Otto Frank was "released"
by the Nazis. Otto goes home and finds
out that no one else that hid with him in
the Secret Annex is coming home. Miep
Gies one of the helpers handed Otto
Anne's famous diary. Otto read it,
changed most of the names and
published it. Now Anne's diary is famous
and published, and written in thousands
of different languages.
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1926- Margot is born
1929- Anne is born
1936- Hitler comes into power
1942- Margot recieves a call up
1942- Anne and her family go into hiding
1944- Anne and her family are put into
concentration camps
1945- Anne and Margot die of typhus
1945- Otto Frank comes home.