Anne Frank Biography
Anne Frank Biography
Anne Frank Biography
Anne Frank was born to the parents of Otto Frank and Edith Hollander in 1929.
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As a child she was Jewish. She had president of the group he was in called
many friends that were Jewish too. Anne the Nazis. Soon Hitler came to the
and her friends were about 10 years old conclusion that Jewish people were the
when Adolph Hitler came into power of cause to any sickness or any bad feeling
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Hitler started making rules that Jewish movies and walk to friends houses, but
people couldn't go certain places like as Hitler gained more power and made
parks or even sit on public benches. more rules Anne and her friends couldn't
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Hitler soon made Jews wear the yellow they would be put in prison, or even
star of David that said "Jude" meaning worse, killed. In Anne's village or
Jewish. Every Jew had to wear one, neighborhood even people who were not
including Anne, on their coats and all Jewish were wearing the stars, standing
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The Nazis were angered by this. They jews who wore the star of David to
hated it so they started taking the non- concentration camps in Auchwitz. At the
camps the had jobs, very hard, jobs for They also had prison cells. But worst of
the prisoners that worked them to death. all they had gas chambers.
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Hitler made the Jews go to hiding in the top two floors of Otto
different schools then the non- jewish Frank's office building along with the Van
children. Anne and her sister Margot Pels family. While in hiding another
went to Jewish Secondary School now person joined the Frank and Van Pels
known as the Anne Frank School. In families in hiding. His name was Fritz
1942 Anne and her family went into Pfeffer. He was a dentist.
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The Franks went into hiding because for the Nazis in Germany at
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In hiding the Franks, Van Pels, and because it would mean that they were
Pfeffer had 4 helpers who got them there hiding. During these long silences Otto
things like, books, news, and food. Frank and Hermann Van Pels, the
During the day the Anne had to be silent father's of the children Margot and Anne
and sitting still in her room even if she Frank and Peter Van Pels, would give the
had to use the bathroom because if the children work to do like Mathematics
workers were in the building they problems and Reading work because
couldn't walk around because it made to Anne, Margot, nor Peter could go to
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On August 4th 1944 Anne was helping sudden a man came up the staircase
Peter with his studies when all of the hollering with a gun pointed at the
Franks, Van Pels, and Pfeffer. That day exhaustion, Auguste Van Pels died in
they were brougt to concentration camps transport from Bergen Belsen, the camp
in Auchwitz. Otto Frank was put to work, that Margot and Anne were kept at, to
Peter Van Pels was put on a death walk, Theresienstadt. Sadly, Margot and Anne
Anne and Margot were sentenced to a both died in March 1945 of a disease
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After the war Otto Frank was "released" changed most of the names and
by the Nazis. Otto goes home and finds published it. Now Anne's diary is famous
out that no one else that hid with him in and published, and written in thousands
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