Who is Anne Frank?
Anne Frank is the famous German-Jewish teenage girl who documented her life in hiding from the Nazis during World War II by writing in her diary. Anne Frank’s diary was first published in 1947 as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and remains one of the most-read books in the world. Anne Frank’s documentation of life during the holocaust is a personalized account of the oppression and fascism under Nazi rule as seen by a child. Annelies Marie Frank was born 12 June 1929 in Weimar, Germany to Otto Frank and Edith Hollander Frank. She had a sister two years her senior named Margot. Though the Franks were reformed Jews, the children lived in a neighborhood that was not exclusively Jewish. Her father served as a German officer during the First World War. In 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party won elections in Frankfurt and immediately spawned Anti-Semitic movements. The Frank family became concerned about the effects of the Nazi party on Germany and moved to Amsterdam, where Otto Frank beca
Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her fathers office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old. Her diary, saved during the war by one of the familys helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.
