- Jeremy Taylor & Bobby Solis

ANNE FRANK

WHO WAS SHE?

• Born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank

• Was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust

• First five years of her life, lived with parents and older sister Margot in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfort

GOING INTO HIDING• 1st half of July of 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding in an apartment which would hide four Dutch Jews as well

• For two years they lived in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street

• Anne referred to this attic as the Secret Attex in a diary she wrote while in hiding

• However, during their hiding, they were arrested by German officials and sent them to Westorbork on Augest 8 th

• Four months later they were moved to Auschwitz to a concentration camp where Anne and Margot were selected for labor

ANNE’S DIARY• While in hiding, Anne kept a diary where she recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences

• Diary was later found in the secret apartment after the family was caught and arrested

• Diary was kept by Miep Gies

• Was later published after WWII in many languages and is used in thousands of schools in Europe and America

LEGACY• Anne had lost her mother to starvation, her sister to typhus, and believed her father to be

dead

• Three days after her sister’s death, Anne herself died of typhus in March 1949

• The camp was liberated by British troops a few weeks later

• Anne Frank has become a symbol for the last promise of the children who died in the Holocaust

WORKS CITED• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Anne Frank Overview and Background.”

Ushmm.org. 22 October. 2013.

• Staff. “TheBestNotes on The Diary of Anne Frank.”. TheBestNotes.com. 22 October. 2013