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June 12, 1929 — March, 1945 “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be. How much you have! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” |
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Anne Frank, born in Frankfurt, Germany of German-Jewish parentage, was the youngest daughter of Otto and Edith Frank. In 1933 the Frank family, fearing the rising persecution of the Jews by the Nazis, relocated in the Netherlands. Otto began a business in Amsterdam, and the family felt safe. On May 14, 1940, the German army invaded the Netherlands, and the lives of the Franks changed abruptly. Jewish people were being arrested by the German army and sent to concentration camps. Anne and her family, along with four other Jewish people, were forced to hide in the annex of rooms above her father’s office. It was there that Anne began writing in a diary which had been a gift on her thirteenth birthday. For twenty-five months Anne’s diary became a record of daily life in the “secret annex.” In August, 1944, after being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. Anne and her sister Margo were separated from their parents and sent to Bergen-Belson in Germany. Anne died of typhus at age 15 while still a prisoner. Of the eight people who hid in the secret annex, only Otto Frank survived. After the war Otto returned to Amsterdam and learned that his family had perished. It was then that he learned that one of the people who had helped hide the family had saved Anne’s diary. In 1947 the diary, “The Secret Annexe,” was published. It has been translated into sixty-seven languages.
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