Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Early in the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, Anne’s father,

Otto Frank (1889–1980), a German businessman, took his
wife and two daughters to live in Amsterdam. In 1941, after
German forces occupied the Netherlands, Anne was forced to
transfer from a public school to a Jewish one. On June 12,
1942, she received a red-and-white plaid diary for her 13th
birthday. That day she began writing in the book: “I hope I will
be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been
able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”
The Diary, which has been translated into more than 65 languages, is the most widely read
diary of the Holocaust, and Anne is probably the best known of Holocaust victims. The Diary was
also made into a play that premiered on Broadway in October 1955, and in 1956 it won both the
Tony Award for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for best drama. A film version directed by George
Stevens was produced in 1959. The play was controversial: it was challenged by screenwriter
Meyer Levin, who wrote an early version of the play (later realized as a 35-minute radio play) and
accused Otto Frank and his chosen screenwriters, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, of
sanitizing and de-Judaizing the story. The play was often performed in high schools throughout the
world and was revived (with additions) on Broadway in 1997–98.

A new English translation of the Diary, published in 1995, contains material that was edited
out of the original version, which makes the revised translation nearly one-third longer than the
first. The Frank family’s hiding place on the Prinsengracht, a canal in Amsterdam, became a
museum that is consistently among the city’s most-visited tourist sites. What really happened in
Anne Frank life? Why is it so famous?
The new English translation of the Diary contains material that was edited out of the original
version, which makes the revised translation nearly one-third longer than the first. The Frank
family’s hiding place on the Prinsengracht, a canal in Amsterdam, became a museum that is
consistently among the city’s most-visited tourist sites. Anne Frank and her family spent two years
hiding in a secret attic apartment behind the office of a family-owned business in Amsterdam. The
Franks and four Dutch Jews who were hiding with them were discovered by authorities on August
4, 1944. The only member of the Frank family who survived the Holocaust was Anne’s father,
Otto, who later worked diligently to get his daughter’s diary published. Margot and Anne Frank
before their family fled to the Netherlands.She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929,
in Frankfurt, Germany.
Elaborately, Anne Frank was a Jewish teenager who went into hiding during the Holocaust,
journaling her experiences in the renowned work 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' Annelies Marie “Anne”
Frank (June 12, 1929 to March 1945) was a world-famous German-born diarist and World War II
Holocaust victim. Her work, The Diary of Anne Frank, has been read by millions. Her parents were
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 Nazis seized power in 1933, Otto
Frank fled to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he had business connections. The rest of the
Frank family soon followed, with Anne being the last of the family to arrive in February 1934 after
staying with her grandparents in Aachen. The fate of the Frank family and other Jews in
Amsterdam was wrapped up with the German occupation of the city, which began in May 1940. In
July 1942, German authorities and their Dutch collaborators began to concentrate Jews from
throughout the Netherlands at Westerbork, a transit camp near the Dutch town of Assen, not far
from the German border. From Westerbork, German officials deported the Jews to Auschwitz-
Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland. During the first half of July,
Anne and her family hid in an apartment that would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well—
Hermann, Auguste, and Peter van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer. For two years, they lived in a secret attic
apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street, which Anne
referred to in her diary as the Secret Annex. Otto Frank's friends and colleagues, Johannes
Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Jan Gies, and Miep Gies, had helped to prepare the hiding place and
smuggled food and clothing to the Franks at great risk to their own lives. While in hiding, Anne
kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences. On August 4, 1944, the
Gestapo (German Secret State Police) discovered the hiding place. It has been long thought that
the authorities acted after being tipped off by an anonymous Dutch caller. But a more recent
theory is that the German SD discovered the hiding place by chance, while investigating reports
that illegal work and fraud with ration coupons were occurring at the house. That same day,
Gestapo official SS Sergeant Karl Silberbauer and two Dutch police collaborators arrested the
Franks; the Gestapo sent them to Westerbork transit camp on August 8. One month later, on
September 4, 1944, SS and police authorities placed the Franks and the four others hiding with
them on a train transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland. The transport arrived
in Auschwitz the following day with 1,019 Jews on board. Men and women were separated.
Selected for labor due to their youth, Anne and her sister, Margot were transferred to the Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in late October 1944. The women chosen from
this transport, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were tattooed with numbers between A-25060
and A-25271. Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserved. Although Anne's
death certificate documents her movement between camps, it does not include her tattoo ID
number either. Both sisters died of typhus in March 1945, just a few weeks before British troops
liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. SS officials also selected Anne's parents for labor.
Anne's mother, Edith died in Auschwitz in early January 1945. The house at Prinsengracht 263,
where Anne Frank and her family were hidden. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the war after
Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. Otto was presented later with Anne’s
writings, which were preserved by Miep Gies one of the Dutch citizens who had hidden the
Franks. Otto Frank was integral to getting his daughter’s diary published. The home where the
Franks hid in Amsterdam continues to attract a large audience. Now known as the Anne Frank
House, it drew more than 1.2 million visitors in 2017.
This are some of her writings in her diary; "I've reached the point where I hardly care
whether I live or die," she wrote on February 3, 1944. "The world will keep on turning without me,
and I can't do anything to change events anyway." However, the act of writing allowed Frank to
maintain her sanity and her spirits. "When I write, I can shake off all my cares," she wrote on April
5, 1944. "It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and
death," she wrote on July 15, 1944. "I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I
hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And
yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this
cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."In addition to her diary,
Frank filled a notebook with quotes from her favorite authors, original stories and the beginnings of
a novel about her time in the Secret Annex. Her writings reveal a teenage girl with creativity,
wisdom, depth of emotion and rhetorical power far beyond her years.
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