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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”- Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk],
German pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 –
early March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for
several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she
lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German
national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame
posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
The Frank family moved from Germany to
Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were
trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As
persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went
into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase in the building where
Anne's father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported
to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her
sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they
died (probably of typhus)
in February or March 1945.
Otto Frank,
the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find
that Anne's diary had been saved by one of the helpers, Miep Gies,
and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated
into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch version and
first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The
diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life
from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
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13-year-old Anne Frank
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AnneFrank/AnneFrank01.html]
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Anne Frank pictured in
1940
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