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Anne Frank Research Paper

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“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. …show more content…

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

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