“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I or anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.” - Anne Frank.
Anne Frank was a German-born diarist during the Holocaust in 1942 and gained popularity after her death in 1945 with the publication of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, which sold about 30 million copies in 67 languages.
During Anne Frank’s childhood, her and her sister played a lot with their neighbours, living in Marbachweg, Frankfurt at that time.
Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in the old German city of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt’s Westend, with a population of about 540,000. Her parents were Otto Frank, who was a zealous photographer, and Edith Hollander, who gave birth to Anne in a maternity hospital. During Anne’s first 5 years she lived with her parents and older sister, Margot, who was 3 years older, in an apartment outside of Frankfurt and went to a Montessori School in 1934. Later on, she then transferred to a Jewish School in 1941, along with her sister.
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During World War II, going on in 1942, Anne and her family went into hiding in the Annex, who were helped by Miep Gies and her husband. During Anne’s time in the Annex, she received a red checkered diary on her 13th birthday and wrote her first entry to ‘Kitty’ on the same day. Her very first entry said “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, in 1929, then later moved to Amsterdam in 1934, where she and her family could live in relative peace for about 6 years, at which point she would be forced to leave the public high school and move to the Jewish high school in Amsterdam. In 1942, she was given her famous diary at the age of thirteen. This very diary would stay with her until her death of typhus at Bergen-Belsen after a particularly harsh winter, after which Otto Frank took it on himself to publish it. Anne and her family were subjected to two years of hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, where their only source of information from the outside were Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler, who also arranged food
Anne Frank was a jewish girl in the 1930’s and 1940’s. She had a sister, mother and father ,and in 1942 they went into hiding. They went into hiding because the nazis invaded Holland and the nazis were sending jews to concentration and work camps. The Frank family hid in a place they called the Secret Annex. They lived there with another family, this family was the Van Daan family. The Van Daan family was a boy named Peter along with his mother and father. Later they received another person who needed a place to hide, this man was a dentist whose name was Mr. Dussel.
In the popular book and story of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl there are many themes present throughout her journal. It’s a touching piece of literature that puts things into perspective about family, warfare, loneliness, and selfishness. Her diary gives insight about people who are actually living in those circumstances from Anne’s point of view, resulting in a more factual story than fictional novels loosely based on true events. Anne goes through a lot during her time in the Annex, including tense arguments with her family, bombings, thieves, Peter, and Dussel moving in. The events may not seem like that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but to a young girl, it’s a huge change of events. It shows a lot from her in the way she acts, Anne’s selfishness proving that stress and war can change people to be more selfish.
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank’s parents gave her a diary. She cherished it with all her heart and treated it with much care. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl “Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?” (Frank 1/12/44) Anne was a young girl in isolation, during World War II; Anne’s family hid in “The Secret Annex,” a hidden living space in the back of an office building. Anne was constantly in danger of being caught and killed by the Nazis. During her time in the Annex Anne developed a deep personality, which knew she was eventually going to die.
Anne was born on June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. In July of 1942, the Franks went into hiding in an annex because Margot (Anne’s sister) got a letter saying that she had to report to a concentration camp as soon as possible. Anne was only thirteen years old at the time. Anne got her diary during the month of June 1942 Anne was so eager to get started.
Anne Frank is a woman that loves to write in her diary. She was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. When the Nazi came during World War Two her family moved to Amsterdam in the early 1930s and hid in a secret annex. What was really sad is that she didn't survive and died in a young age of 16.
Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her and her family were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with eight others, spent over two years during World War 2 hiding in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam. During this time, Frank wrote about her experiences and encounters in a Diary who was never meant to be published, The Diary of Anne Frank. Her work has gone on to be read by millions. In her book she talks about her life and everything she encountered, but one of the main ones were the fact that she was a jew, second one being all the tensions of everyone she had to share a shelter with, and last one being sent to concentration camps and being separated from her family.
Anne loved to read and write, and was completely fascinated with literature. For her 13th birthday she received a diary that she referred to as kitty (Feldman). She refused to write in German because all of the horrible things happening in Germany at that time (“Anne Frank”. Bio.com). One of her first entries was “ I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confine in anyone, and I hope you will a great source of comfort and support” (Feldman). Throughout the times Anne wrote in her diary she knew Germany was changing because she wrote “After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews” (“Anne Frank”. Bio.com). Otto Frank knew things were started go wrong when he heard Nazi solider going by singing “When Jewish blood splatters from the knife” (“Anne Frank”. Bio.com).
Frank’s life was full of hard times and persecution. She was born on July 12, 1929. She received her famous diary on her 13th birthday, the same day of her very first diary entry (Frank 1). It was wartime 1942 in Amsterdam and Adolf Hitler was at his height of power (Byers 36). Hitler had given Germany the scapegoat they had been looking for: the Jews. World War II was raging across Europe, making its way toward changing the life of Anne Frank. The Nazis had taken much of Europe and there was barely a place the Jews could go without fear of being persecuted. The Nazi special forces, the SS Army, had taken away many of the Jewish families in Amsterdam and were offering a cash reward to anyone who turned in a Jew. The Nazis isolated the Jews from daily life: They only allowed the Jews to walk, gave them a curfew, banned them from swimming and going to the movies, and made them wear a yellow star so they could quickly be identified. Hitler fanned the flame of an age-old prejudice until it exploded into a violent hatred (Lewis 4). The icing on the cake for the Jews was when Hitler started
Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager. Anne and her family history is currently known thanks to the publication of "Anne Frank's diary". The diary that Anne Franks wrote in 1945 while she and another jewishs were hiding from the nazis during the second world war.
The Diary of Anne Frank, is the actual diary of a Jewish girl in world war two. Anne’s story has touched hearts and changed lives, telling the tale of war from the perspective of a innocent child at the first stages of her teens. Not all, but many have read this book as an assignment of some sort, only to come out with information that makes the heart truly heavy. The Diary of Anne Frank illustrates the effects of war in a brutally honest way, especially to the minds of developing humans such as teens.
Annelies (Anne) Marie Frank was born June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Frank family’s ancestors had lived in the city for hundreds of years and had become known for their wealth in the banking and commerce world (Anne Frank). Anne and her older sister Margot were born to Jewish parents Otto, a banker and business owner, and Edith. Anne was often described as prankish, an average student, sociable, well liked, and fun loving. She often talked in class and was no stranger to being reprimanded by a teacher (Anne(lies Marie) Frank). When Anne was young, her family moved to Amsterdam. Anne quickly made new friends and learned the new language. She was known
Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Little did she perceive, at thirteen, everything would change. On July 5, 1942, Margot, Anne’s sister, was given an official summons to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany. The following day, the Frank family withdrew from society, and went into hiding in makeshift quarters in a vacant space at the rear of Otto Frank's company building at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam; which they had reference to as the Secret Annex. This is where she whiled away the following two years of her life, living in fear of discovery. To pass the time, Annelies kept a diary her father had given her, in which she not merely wrote about the horrors of war but the everyday troubles of being an adolescent. One quote that she wrote in her diary that stood out was "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." These words were found in her diary dated July 1944, several months before she passed away in a concentration camp. This illustrates how mature Anne was for a
Who is Anne Frank? Anne Frank was a young writer who was in hiding during the Holocaust. She journaled her experiences. She was born June 12, 1929 and was born in Frankfurt, Germany. During WWII she lived in Amsterdam with her family. Anne kept her diary from June 12, 1942 to August 4, 1944. Anne’s full name is Annelies Marie Frank. Anne had a sister named Margot Frank and her parents were Otto Frank and Edith Frank.
Anne was born on June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany to parents Otto and Edith Frank. She has an older sister named Margot and a cat named Moortje. Anne was a Jew living in Amsterdam during World War II and was forced into hiding due to this. She spent two years in hiding and kept a diary during the time explaining what life was like, in the hopes that it would be published. She and her family were found out and arrested on August 4th, 1944 and were separated and sent to various concentration camps. After moving from camp to camp, Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen, where they both died in March 1945 due to a typhus epidemic. Anne became famous posthumously after her father, the only member of her family to survive the war – fulfilled Anne’s wishes and published her diary. She is now one of the most famous Jewish Holocaust victims.