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In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family,
fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, went into hiding in an
Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years, Anne vividly
describes not only the daily frustrations of living in such close
quarters, but also her thoughts, feelings and longings as she grows
up. Her diary ends abruptly and tragically when, in August 1944,
Anne and her family were all finally betrayed.
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Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany on 12th June
1929, the second child of Otto and Edith Frank. In 1933 Hitler had
come to power and was taking more and more measures against the
Jews. The Frank family feared what the future might hold if they
stayed in Germany. When Otto received an offer to start a new
company in Amsterdam, the family decided to move to the
Netherlands. Anne was a lively and fun-loving little girl who had
lots of friends. She went to a Montessori school with her sister
Margot, also extremely bright and clever. In 1940 Hitler invaded
the Netherlands and gradually imposed their restrictions on the
Jews. Otto transferred his business to his trusted colleagues
Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler and began preparing the secret
annexe connected to the office warehouse for hiding. Anne was given
her diary on her 13th birthday in 1942, and she immediately began
writing in it about her family, friends and school. A month later,
Margot, like thousands of other young Jews, received a call-up
notice and was ordered to report to the SS. That evening, the
family moved into the secret annexe and, with the help of Kleiman
and Kugler, and employees Miep Santrouschitz and Bep Voskuijl, they
remained in hiding for the next two years. Anne died in
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hanover Germany in February
or early March l945, just days after her sister, Margot, and only a
few weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops.
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