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A Diary Every Day By Anne Frank

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Six million innocent, loving, caring Jewish people were ruthlessly murdered during the Holocaust, yet there was little insight into exactly how these people were treated before their deaths. However, one girl, by the name of Anne Frank, wrote in her diary every day, unaware that her diary entries would solve this issue. She was born in the large German town of Frankfurt. Anne was an ordinary child, with dreams for her future, and friends and family who supported and loved her, unaware that she would turn out to be one of the most important people with regards to information of fleeing Jews during the Holocaust. Anne was living in Amsterdam with her family at the time of the persecution by the Nazis. Her family went into hiding for two …show more content…

Anne Frank was born under the name Anneliese Marie Frank on June 12, 1929. Her mother was Edith Hollander Frank and her father was Otto Frank.
Otto Frank was born on May 12, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main. He has an older brother Robert (1886), a younger brother Herbert (1891) and a sister Helene (1893). His father Michael heads the family bank, which specializes in currency trading. The Franks are liberal Jews. In her autobiography, Miep Gies describes Otto Frank as: ‘The calm one, the children’s teacher, the most logical, the one who balanced everything out. He was the leader, the one in charge. When a decision had to be made, all eyes turned to Mr. Frank’ (Otto Frank).
Edith Holländer is born in Aachen on January 16, 1900. She has two older brothers, named Julius (1894) and Walter (1897), and an older sister called Bettina (1898). The Holländer family celebrates the Jewish holidays and and keeps a kosher household. The Holländers are leading members of Aachen’s Jewish community. Father Holländer trades in scrap metal and owns several industrial processing plants. In his memoirs, Otto Frank remembers the relationship between Anne and her mother: ‘I was concerned that there was not a particularly good understanding between my wife and Anne, and I believe my wife suffered more from this than Anne. In reality, she was an excellent mother, who went to any lengths for her children. She often complained that Anne was

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