On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the world's most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto Frank. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and normal childhood, and on her 13th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became special to her as years went by. It is through this diary that much about World War II and Anne's life has been learned. In 1933, her and her family left Frankfurt, a large Jewish community, and settled in Amsterdam. Her father foresaw that Hitler's power boded disaster …show more content…
The crime was hiding. On September 3, 1944, aboard the last transport to leave the Netherlands, Anne's family and those who were with them, were brought to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. By then more than 100,000 Dutch Jews had been deported. This last transport held 498 men, 442 women, and 79 children a total of 1,019 people. This transport arrived in Aushwitz during the night of September 5. Right after they got there, men and women were separated. The following day, 549 people from this last transport, among them all the children less than 15 years of age, were sent to the gas chambers, where they would be killed. Women who had not been selected for extinction had to walk to the Birkenau women's camp. Edith Frank and her daughters were among them. This camp was known as a "death camp". They had a goal to get rid of all the Jews and Gypsies. By September 1944, almost two million people had been gassed. After the arrival of the last transport from Westerbork, there were about 39,000 people in the women's camp. Margot and Anne stayed there for almost two months. They were then to be shipped to Bergen-Belsen. Mrs. Frank didn't want to leave her daughters, so she stayed with them until they were shipped away. On January 6, 1945, Edith Frank died in Aushwitz-Birkenau of grief and exhaustion. Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen on October 28. Margot and
After being found and separated all but one of the eight members survived. Anne and her sister Margot were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After being there a year, Anne and Margot had Malnutrition and typhus. In March of 1945 Anne Frank died at the concentration camp because of malnutrition and typhus. Margot, however survived for a little bit longer. Everyone else died except Otto Frank Anne’s father, he was the only member of the annex that survived the Holocaust. This all happened to them because one person made a call to the Nazi
The Frank family did not stay in Camp Westerbork for long. On September 3, 1944, the Frank family was transferred to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. When the family arrived to Auschwitz, the men and women were placed in separate lines. Next, the guards inspected each prisoner. This is where the guards would decide who would go to the gas chambers, and who would serve as a laborer. Anne, Margot, Edith, and
Since the Nazi soldiers were male, they treated men and women prisoners in their camps with a significant amount of difference. Prisoners were forced to do pointless yet challenging labour for an indefinite time before they were sentenced to death. Upon arrival at the camps, Jews were divided into two different groups; one would group would live and the other would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. The labour intensive tasks proved to be quite brutal for women since they were not accustomed to such duties. Even pregnant women were not spared and many women miscarried because the hard labour had killed their unborn child. Those babies who were born were almost inevitably taken immediately and killed. There was no privacy in these camps and the women were continually being eyed by the lonely, watching soldiers. Some women were beaten or sexually harassed while in the camps and could do nothing to stop the horror. Their husbands, brothers and fathers were either dead or in a different part of the
It ran from 1943 to 1944 and held all the non-Jewish prisoners. Part of the camp became the recuperation camp, where any sick prisoners were sent (Bergen-Belsen: Camp Complex). This part of the camp was established in 1944 to keep healthy prisoners from getting sick (USHMM). The most people died there because there was no medical care or good food, and the conditions were very bad (Bergen-Belsen: Camp Complex). About 35,000 of these prisoners died when the typhus epidemic struck, including Anne and Margot Frank. Many of them were also killed by lethal injections (Webb and Lisciotto). When the recuperation camp became too full, officials moved all the girls to the tent camp (Bergen-Belsen: Camp Complex). This happened in 1944 (USHMM). The tent camp was later damaged by a storm, so the small women’s camp was created (Bergen-Belsen: Camp Complex). Prisoners who survived the death marches were brought to Bergen-Belsen, and many of them were women, so officials turned the prisoner-of-war camp into the large women’s camp (USHMM).
Annelies Mare Frank is known as the “face of the Holocaust.” On a daily basis during WWII, she would sit and write down her thoughts in an autograph book her parents have her. In said book, Frank wrote to a friend named Kitty (Anne Frank Bio). Today, Anne Frank is famous for her diary that told her story as a German- Jew. Born June 12, 1929, Annelies Marie Frank was a joyous child that lived in Frankfurt, Germany.
Anne Frank was a Jewish/ German girl who was born in 1929 on June 12th. While in hiding, Anne kept a diary of her time spent in closed quarters trying to survive with seven other people. In the diary, she recorded her growth emotionally and all the stress that was put on her. After two years in hiding they were captured by the Nazis. While they were being captured, the diary was scattered on the floor. The Nazi’s took it and preserved it until the war was over. The pages of the diary were given to Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the only person to
From her perspective, Anne Frank, a young girl, displays her fear of being discovered by writing down her experiences. Her diary gives insight on what it was like to be a Jew and in hiding, during the time when the Nazis sought to kill all Jews. Although written from a subjective point of view, the diary is considered reliable as it is a personal type of writing, thoughts the owner of the diary would not disclose to another. However, as the first edition of the diary was published after the death of Anne Frank on the 25th of June, 1947, and having it edited by her father, Otto Frank, it does not display an accurate representation of the two years Anne wrote in hiding as his father decided what would be published.
They were shipped off to Westerbork which is a concentration camp. This camp was bad but it was not the worst one. Later they were transferred to Auschwitz death camp. This was the last time that Anne and her family saw their dad, Otto Frank. After several months of hard labor they were transferred again to Bergen Belsen camp in Germany.
Anne shares with us a story almost 11 milllion people closesly experienced from Nazi religious persecution. Anne and the rest of the group hiding in the Secret Annex manage to avoid Nazi's through the worst of the undesireable hunt. As the diary goes on her writing matures as she grows into a young woman. She vividly shares with us the Allied Forces progression during the period. Just as the war enters its final stages, the Secret Annex is raided by Nazi Police, arrested are all eight members of the Secret Annex.
Storoies has been born during the Holocaust, Anne Frank's was one of them. She was a Jewish young teenage girl who lived in Amsterdam, Holland. When the Nazis occupyed Holland, she went into hinding with her family in 1942 when her sister, Margot was called up to a concentration camp. A few other Jews has joined them later on. After more than a year of hiding, they were discovered in 1944 and were seperated during transitions to camps. Anne and Margot stayed together but died in 1945 of typhus, only a few weeks before their camp was liberated. In fact, the whole Frank family didn't survive except for Otto Frank, Anne's father. Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and later found out that Anne had kept a diary the whole time they were in hiding. The diary survived because of Meip, a guardian of the Secret Annex, she saved it for Anne after
More than 1,000,000 children died in the Holocaust. But a well known Jewish child and diarist from this dreadful era was a young girl named Anne Frank. Born June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was living with her mother, father, and older sister Margot. When the day of July 5th, 1942 came, she and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam with four other Jews, after the Nazi’s seized power. Anne was one of the last of her family to arrive in Amsterdam after living with her grandparents in Aachen, Germany. They hid in a secret attic apartment, referred to as the Secret Annex in the diary written by Anne. For two years they lived in the Secret Annex until August 4th, 1944, when the Gestapo, or German police, discovered the hiding place. Anne and her sister Margot
Though, this girl was one of the many victims that was forced to give up her freedom for her safety. It always seemed to her that life was cut short and was limited as to what her family and she could do. She once stated, "I don't think I shall ever feel really at home in this house (Frank 20). Home always seems to be a place where children feel safe and where they sense comfort; Anne’s opportunity to have these qualities were stripped away. Though before that, throughout the 1930’s, she lived a relatively happy and normal childhood. Frank had many friends, Dutch and German, Jewish and Christian, and she was a bright and inquisitive student (Anne Frank Biography). But by May 1940, Anne wrote in her diary, “The good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews” (Frank 4). Her life was driven by fear and threat; she was forced to live an unwanted life. It did not take long for Anne to be forced to grow up and quit fantasizing about such life. Her life was played out as a deck of cards the Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, was playing
Anne Frank was one over a million children that died during the Holocaust. The Frank family was in hiding for quite some time before they were found. The Nazi's finally found them and took them to concentration camps. Anne Frank went to a total of three camps. At her first camp, she, her sister Margot, Mrs. Van Daan, her mother, and other people that were hiding with them immediately got separated from the boys in their family. One lady that worked at the camp told Anne she would never see her father or anyone ever again. Anne and her sister Margot always stuck together. Sadly though, Anne only made it to three camps. She died at age fifteen. Margot was the only one who made it through the whole war. She recently passed away in 2010.
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929. She had only one sibling, Margot her older sister. Her parents, Edith and Otto Frank, raised in a Jewish and non-Jewish people. The Franks where fairly wealthy because Otto’s successful business, so money was never a problem. The first Nazi threats were made when Anne was only four years old. Around that time Edith and Otto decided it was no longer safe where they
On September 3, 1944 the group of Jewish prisoners were deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. They arrived after a three day journey. When they arrived the men were forcibly separated from the women and children. There was 1091 passengers and 549 including all children were directly sent to the gas chambers. The other females that were not selected for immediate death, Anne was forced to strip down naked to be disinfected, her head was shaved, and was tattooed with an identification number on her arm.