Anne Frank Research Paper

Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany.Four years after January 1933, Adolf Hitler took over Germany and him and the Nazi’s government instituted a series of measures aimed at taking over Germany’s Jewish citizens. May 1940 the Germans that entered World War II in September 1939 invaded the Netherlands and quickly made Jewish life dangerous. Between the summer of 1942 and September 1944, the Nazis destroyed more than 100,000 Jews in Holland to concentration camps. In early July 1942 after Anne’s sister Margot received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany, Anne’s family went into hiding in an attic apartment behind Anne’s dad’s Otto Frank’s business in Amsterdam. The Frank family trying to avoid detection,

A small group of Otto Frank’s employees, including his Austrian-born secretary, Miep Gies risked their own lives to smuggle food, supplies and news of the outside world into the secret apartment, whose entrance was behind a movable bookcase. In November 1942, the Franks and Van PELs were joined by Fritz Pfeffer Miep Gies’ Jewish dentist. There were eight people in the small apartment, which Anne Frank referred to as the Secret Annex. The group lived in constant fear of being discovered and could never go outside. They had to remain quiet during daytime in order to avoid being discovered by the people working in the warehouse below them. Anne passed the time by writing her life and feelings in her diary, she got for her 13th birthday, which was a month before her family went into hiding. She made her entries to addressing her diary to an imaginary friend named Kitty. Anne wrote about her life in hiding and impressions of everyone else in the “secret Annex” and her feelings of loneliness and frustration over the lack of privacy. She wrote about crushes on boys, arguments with her mother about her

Anne Frank and Margot Frank got immediate death in the Auschwitz gas chambers and instead were sent to Bergen-Belsen which was a concentration camp in northern Germany. In March 1945, the Frank sisters died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen and their bodies were thrown into a grave. On April 15 , 1945 British forces stopped the camps. Edith Frank died of starvation at Auschwitz in January 1945. Hermann van PELs died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz soon after his arrival there in 1944 and his wife is believed to have likely died in another concentration camp and that it is known as the Czech Republic in the spring of 1945. Peter van PELs died at the a concentration camp in May of 1945 in Austria and died of an illness in late December 1944 at the a different concentration camp in German. Anne Frank’s father Otto Frank was the only one of the group to survive and he was liberated from Auschwitz by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945.When Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam following his release from Auschwitz, Miep Gies gave him a lot of papers and about five notebooks with Anne’s