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 * __Anne Frank__**

//Dearest Kitty,// (Kitty was the name of Anne Frank's Diary) //My name is Annelies Marie Frank (well-known as Anne). I was born in Frankfurt am Maine on the 12th June, 1929. I had to face a terrible war all because I am Jewish. I moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis became more powerful. Me and my family are living in this horrible annex. Oh, Kitty. If only we could leave. If only there wasn't a war and that we can all live in peace. Yours, Anne. // Anne Frank lived for twenty-five months in a secret annex along with her family and the Van pels. After the last words she wrote in her diary, she was captured by the Nazis along with her family and put into concentration camps. Anne died of typhus with her sister Margot in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945 at the age of fifteen. And her Mother, Edith Frank, also died but of starvation. And most of her family died in 1944 to 1945. But Anne's father, Otto Frank, survived and lived until 1980. During that time he published her diary that was found by one of their dear helpers, Miep Gies, who helped them gather food and other things that they needed.

Miep kept the Diary of Anne as well as other notes and stories she wrote, she hoped that Anne would come back to retrieve them so, but years went by, when she found out that Otto survived she gave him Anne's belongings, Miep is still alive today (99 years) along with little of Anne's friends from her school and many others that were on the train to Poland with her.

Ever since the Diary of Anne Frank was published, there were performances of her life in theatres, Otto Frank couldn't bare to ever watch any of them and it gave him pain to go to interviews and talk about his childrens death. Small groups of survivors returned from the concentration camps, Otto found two sisters who witnessed Anne and Margots terrible time in the camps, they were the ones that told him that his daughters suffered and reached their death.

In the concentration camps, many people were made to take off all of their clothes and go into a room where they thought they were going to have a shower with //water//, it turned out to be poisonous gas. Nobody could survive. Everyone had to have their hair cut and work all day, if they stopped working for one moment, they would get shot or be threatened. In 1945, 17,000 people perished of disease.

One of Anne's most dearest friends, Jacqueline van Maarsen, survived the war and was one of the first people to see Anne's Diary. Anne Frank's Diary sold more then thirty million copies and was printed into sixty different languages. It was nearly more popular then the Bible at the time. One and a half million children were murdered, Anne's story is only one of them.


 * __Anne Frank__**

Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany June 12th 1929. Her real name was Annelies Marie Frank but all of he family called her Anne. She went to a Montessori school where she was an average pupil, Although her teacher remembered her for her pranks and her amount of talking.

Anne at school when 11 years old.



Her Diary

Many of the wartime horrors in Germany were revealed in the diary of Anne Frank. Annelies Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany in the year 1929, and lived with her two parents- Edith Frank-Hollander and Otto Frank and her older sister Margot. She lived happily until 1933 when a party called the Nazi`s came to power, they were racist and victimised the Jewish religion. Being Jews themselves the Frank family fled to Amsterdam in The Netherlands to avoid persecution. After spending a couple of happy years there world war 2 broke out- Germany attacked Poland. Nazi`s continued to enforce many restrictions for Jews. Anne described this act;

"After May 1940…the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn-in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to ride trams or in cars, even their own…Jews were forbidden to go to theatres, cinemas or any other forms of entertainment; Jews were forbidden to use swimming pools, tennis courts, hockey fields or any other athletic fields…You couldn’t do this and you couldn’t do that, but life went on…"

Unfortunately in July 1942, germany authorities began to concentrate Jews. Fearing for his family`s safety- especially after Margot was called up by the SS, he planned for them to go into hiding. Otto frank along wit his family went into hiding during the first week of June in a secret attic apartment behind a an office block of a family owned business on 263 Prinsengacht street. Otto`s friends and colleagues: Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kulger, Jan Gies and Miep Gies helped them hide and smuggled food to them for the many years spent there. After spending a few weeks in hiding, The Franks were joined by the Van Pels Family and later by Mr. Fritz Pfeffer. During her stay in the annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she wrote in almost every day. Where she disscussed her feelings and though while describing the relationship between her and the others in hiding. Anne particuarly despised Mrs Van Pels (Auguste), who she thought was too picky and nosy not to mention her vainess. Anne also was never to close to her mother, Edith Frank,"Who doesn`t understand me! " While there was many downcast feelings Anne managed to express some liking to Peter, which eventually turned into love. She used this as a distraction to the horrible realism around her.

Sadly, on August 4 1944 the Gestapo, (German Secret Police) discovered the eight Jewish residents of the secret Annex. The Gestapo had been tipped off by an anonymous caller. After arresting the Franks, the Van Pels family and Mr Pfeffer, they sent them to Westerbork on the 8 August 1944. Later Anne and her sister Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Both sisters died of Typhus just weeks before the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated by British troops at the end of World War 2, 1945.

At the end of the war Anne's father Otto Frank returned, from the labour camp, to Amsterdam. He was the only survivor of the eight Jews in hiding. When he discovered his daughter's diary Otto decided to attempt to get it published, achieving this goal in 1947.


 * __The annex__**

Anne and her family hid in a secret annex that her father had built, he had made the annex incase there was a second world war. They spent twenty-five months hidden in the annex but, they had dear helpers that retreived food and presents etc. They were so close to surviving the war, but Adolf Hitler and the Nazis found them and took them to the concentration camps in Poland where most of them died in 1944-45, where as Anne's father, Otto Frank survived until 1980 and published Anne's diary in many different languages.

Anne Frank and her family had very high standards of behaviour they were very highly mannered. In her diary she wrote: //'It feels good being nice but I find it so difficult with Mr Pfeffer.''

While Anne was in the Annex she found out that only 4 of her school friends are alive now. Anne felt guilty because some of her friends were cold and had no home to go to but she had a roof over her head and was fairly warm.//