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    Frankfurt Am Main Concentration Camp Diary The Netherlands Nazi Adolf Hitler Otto Frank Amsterdam

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    Anne Frank kept a diary from June 1942 to August 1944 while she and her family hid from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam. Her diary documents her life in hiding and her hopes for the future. In August 1944, the group was discovered and transported to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, just weeks before it was liberated. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive. He published Anne's diary in 1947, which has since become one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.

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    Anne Frank kept a diary from June 1942 to August 1944 while she and her family hid from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam. Her diary documents her life in hiding and her hopes for the future. In August 1944, the group was discovered and transported to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, just weeks before it was liberated. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive. He published Anne's diary in 1947, which has since become one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.

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    Anne Frank kept a diary from June 1942 to August 1944 while she and her family hid from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam. Her diary documents her life in hiding and her hopes for the future. In August 1944, the group was discovered and transported to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, just weeks before it was liberated. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive. He published Anne's diary in 1947, which has since become one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.

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    Anne Frank, in full 

    Annelies Marie Frank, (born June


    12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died
    February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration
    camp, near Hannover), Jewish girl whose diary of her
    family’s two years in hiding during the German
    occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war
    literature.
    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 compelled 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.”

    When Anne’s sister, Margot, was faced


    with deportation (supposedly to a forced-labour camp),
    the Franks went into hiding on July 6, 1942, in the
    backroom office and warehouse of Otto Frank’s food-
    products business. With the aid of a few non-Jewish
    friends, among them Miep Gies, who smuggled in food
    and other supplies, the Frank family and four other Jews
    —Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their son, Peter,
    and Fritz Pfeffer—lived confined to the “secret annex.”
    During this time, Anne wrote faithfully in her diary,
    recounting day-to-day life in hiding, from ordinary
    annoyances to the fear of capture. She discussed typical
    adolescent issues as well as her hopes for the future,
    which included becoming a journalist or a writer.
    Anne’s last diary entry was written on August 1, 1944.
    Three days later the annex was discovered by
    the Gestapo, which was acting on a tip from Dutch
    informers.
    The Frank family was transported to Westerbork, a
    transit camp in the Netherlands, and from there
    to Auschwitz, in German-occupied Poland, on
    September 3, 1944, on the last transport to leave
    Westerbork for Auschwitz. Anne and Margot were
    transferred to Bergen-Belsen the following month.
    Anne’s mother died in early January, just before the
    evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. It was
    established by the Dutch government that both Anne
    and Margot died in a typhus epidemic in March 1945,
    only weeks before the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, but
    scholars in 2015 revealed new research, including
    analysis of archival data and first-person accounts,
    indicating that the sisters might have perished in
    February 1945. Otto Frank was found hospitalized at
    Auschwitz when it was liberated by Soviet troops on
    January 27, 1945.
    Friends who searched the hiding place after the family’s
    capture later gave Otto Frank the papers left behind by
    the Gestapo. Among them he found Anne’s diary, which
    was published as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young
    Girl (originally in Dutch, 1947). Precocious in style and
    insight, it traces her emotional growth amid adversity.
    In it she wrote, “I still believe, in spite of everything,
    that people are really good at heart.”
    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.

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