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Hiding in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht. In July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding. The Van Pels family followed a week later. The two families already knew each other: Hermann van Pels worked for Otto’s company. Four months later, they were joined by an eighth person: Fritz Pfeffer, an acquaintance of the Frank family. Take a ...
- The History of The Secret Annex
The Secret Annex of Anne Frank. The annex where Anne and her...
- Toilet
The people in hiding did their laundry in the office kitchen...
- Front Attic
Peter used the attic as an observation post and Anne would...
- Anne Frank
Anne Frank Her life, the diary, and the Secret Annex. Who...
- Front Office
(Anne Frank Magazine 1998, Anne Frank Stichting.) Otto Frank...
- The History of The Secret Annex
- Anne Frank's Diary Is (Arguably) The Most Famous Diary of All Time
- Anne's Sister, Margot Betti Frank, Also Wrote A Diary
- Anne Frank Received Her Diary as A 13th Birthday Present
- Four Other Jews Lived in The Secret Annex Alongside The Frank Family
- Anne Frank Spent A Total of Two Years and 35 Days in Hiding
- Anne Wanted to Become A Famous Writer
- Anne Rewrote Her Diary After Listening to A BBC Broadcast
- The Franks Were Discovered Just Two Months After The Allied Landings in Normandy
- Anne Frank's Diary Was Rescued by Miep Gies, Her Father's Friend and Secretary
- The Exact Date of Anne Frank's Death Is Unknown
Anne Frank’s diary, originally written in Dutch and published in 1947 in Holland as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942–1 Augustus 1944(The Secret Annexe: Diary-Letters 12 June 1942–1 August 1944), had an initial print run of only 1,500 copies, but has since become something of a phenomenon. It has been translated into more than 60 language...
Anneliese Marie Frank, known as 'Anne' to her friends and family, was born in Frankfurt-am-Main on 12 June 1929. She was the second and youngest child of an assimilated Jewish family. Her sister, Margot Betti Frank, who was three years older than Anne, also wrote a diary – although it has never been found. Margot was the more studious sister. Anne,...
Anne chose her own diary – an autograph book bound with white and red checked cloth, and closed with a small lock – as a present for her 13th birthday. This birthday, on Friday 12 June 1942, was the last before she and her family went into hiding. To mark the occasion, Anne's mother, Edith, made cookies for Anne to share with her friends at school....
The Franks were soon joined by four other Jews: Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter (the boy Anne was to fall in love with), and for a time, Fritz Pfeffer, a German dentist. Anne's diary describes in great detail the tension between the eight individuals, who had to stay indoors at all times and remain quiet so as not to arouse the su...
During that time she was unable to see the sky, could not feel the rain or sun, walk on grass, or even walk for any length of time. Anne focused on studying and reading books on European history and literature. She also spent time on her appearance: curling her dark hair and manicuring her nails. She made lists of the toiletries she dreamt one day ...
While in hiding Anne hoped that she would one day be able to return to school and she dreamt of spending a year in Paris and another in London. She wanted to study the history of art and become fluent in different languages while seeing “beautiful dresses” and “doing all kind of exciting things”. Ultimately she wanted to become “a journalist, and l...
On 28 March 1944, Anne and her family listened to a BBC programme broadcast illegally by Radio Oranje (the voice of the Dutch government-in-exile). Gerrit Bolkestein, the Dutch minister of education, art and science, who was exiled in London, stated that after the war he wished to collect eyewitness accounts of the experiences of the Dutch people u...
By listening daily to the broadcasts of Radio Oranje and the BBC, Anne’s father, Otto Frank, was able to follow the progress of the Allied forces. He had a small map of Normandy that he marked with little red pins. On Tuesday 6 June 1944, Anne excitedly wrote: “Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation?” Tragically, it was not to ...
On 4 August 1944, everyone in the annex was arrested. On 4 August 1944, three days after Anne’s final diary entry, the Gestapo arrested Anne together with her family and the other people they were hiding with. They were betrayed by an anonymous source who had reported their existence to the German authorities. Otto's secretary, Miep Gies, who had h...
Anne was first sent to Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands, before being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. More people were murdered at Auschwitz than at any other camp – at least 1.1 million men, women and children perished there, 90 per cent of them Jews. Anne and her sister Margot survived Auschwitz only to be sent to the Bergen-Belsen c...
Sep 3, 2019 · It was the final transport from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. Even in the Secret Annex, Anne Frank had been aware of the existence of Westerbork. She had learned about the war and the persecution of the Jews from the helpers and from radio broadcasts. On, B version, 9 October 1942, Anne Frank ...
The Diary of a Young Girl is one of the world’s most widely read books, which has made Anne Frank an international symbol and her story deeply embedded in the collective memory of the Holocaust. Top Photo: Anne Frank in 1940, while at 6. Montessorischool, Niersstraat 41-43, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Photograph by unknown photographer.
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 ...
Apr 23, 2019 · The Diary of Anne Frank is the first, and sometimes only, exposure many people have to the history of the Holocaust. Meticulously handwritten during her two years in hiding, Anne's diary remains one of the most widely read works of nonfiction in the world. Anne has become a symbol for the lost promise of the more than one million Jewish ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Anne Frank (1929-1945), a young Jewish girl, her sister, and her parents moved to the Netherlands from Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power there in ...
