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    Anne Frank was a German-Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation to escape persecution. She and seven others hid in a secret annex for two years, where Anne kept a diary documenting her experiences. Most of the group was eventually captured and Anne died at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Only her father Otto survived. Her diary was published after the war and provides a personal account of life in hiding that has become one of the most widely known stories of the Holocaust.

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    Anne Frank was a German-Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation to escape persecution. She and seven others hid in a secret annex for two years, where Anne kept a diary documenting her experiences. Most of the group was eventually captured and Anne died at the age of 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Only her father Otto survived. Her diary was published after the war and provides a personal account of life in hiding that has become one of the most widely known stories of the Holocaust.

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    THE DIARY OF ANNE PRANK

    The story of what happened to Anne Frank is among the most well-known of the six million Jews who
    died in the Holocaust. Her diary is the first encounter many people have with the history of Nazi
    Germany's attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.

    Who was Anne Frank?

    Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of
    her experiences. Anne and her family went into hiding for two years to avoid Nazi persecution. Her
    documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl.

    She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 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 came to 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 early 1942, the Germans began preparations to
    deport Jews from the Netherlands to killing centers in the east. At this time, they required all Dutch Jews
    to be concentrated in Amsterdam. They also decided to intern all non-Dutch Jews in Westerbork transit
    camp. From Westerbork, German officials deported the Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing
    centers in German-occupied Poland. The first deportation transport left Westerbork on July 15, 1942, for
    Auschwitz-Birkenau. These deportations and the escalating anti-Jewish measures alarmed many Jews in
    the Netherlands, including the Franks.

    During the first half of July 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding. They were eventually joined
    by four other Jews as well—Hermann, Auguste, and Peter van Pels, and Fritz Pfeffer. For two years, they
    lived in a secret apartment at 263 Prinsengracht Street. The apartment was located behind the business
    offices where Otto Frank had worked as company director. Anne referred to the hiding place in her diary
    as the Secret Annex. Otto Frank's friends and colleagues, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Johan
    Voskuijl, Bep Voskuijl, 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.

    Anne Frank died in February or March 1945, shortly before British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on
    April 15, 1945. Anne Frank died at the age of 15. Margot Frank died at the age of 19, also in February or
    March 1945. Both Margot and Anne died of typhus. SS officials also selected Anne's parents for labor.
    Anne's mother, Edith died in Auschwitz in early January 1945.

    Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the war. He was liberated from Auschwitz by Soviet forces 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 diary of Anne Frank is the first, and sometimes only, exposure many people have to
    the history of the Holocaust. Anne Frank's writings also included short stories, fairy tales, and essays.
    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.

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