BIOGRAPHY OF ANNE FRNAK


Name: Anne Frank

Birth date: June 12, 1929

Death date: March, 1945

Education: Sixth Montessori School

Place of birth: Frankfurt, Germany

Place of death: Lower Saxony, Germany

Full name: Annelies Marie Frank

Anne Frank was a Jewish victim of the Holocaust most well-known for the diary she kept while in hiding which has since become one of the world's most widely read books.

Until around age eleven, Anne grew up without any care in a relatively safe Holland. In 1940, however, the Netherlands was occupied by Germany and the protection that Holland was able to provide to its Jewish citizens came to an end.

Beginning in 1942, the first Jews in Holland received call-up notices to report for the so-called "work" camp Westerbork. The majority of Jews obeyed the call-up to report for the "work" camps as fleeing was almost impossible and refusal to obey could lead to death or shipment to prison camps.

To avoid deportation or exile to the camps, Anne's parents went into hiding in the annex of the building that housed Otto's business. In order to protect Anne from the danger that threatened them, Anne's father told her only a few days before that the family was not going to a camp but was instead going to hide from the Germans.

Even though Anne saw hiding as an exciting adventure, the hiding place quickly became too small for her restless character. For more than two years, Frank described her daily life in hiding through writing.

On August 4, 1944, the secret annex where Frank and her family were hiding was discovered and raided by the Grüne Polizei (Security Police). Anne and her family were arrested and are quickly deported to concentration camps in Holland, Poland, and Germany.

The eight residents of the secret annex were transported to Auschwitz on the last train leaving the transit camp Westerbork. After a month at Auschwitz, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where thousands of people died everyday from hunger and sickness. Margot and Anne both contracted typhus and died within a short time of each other in March 1945, only a few weeks before the liberation.