Anne Frank Research Paper

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`Many people refer to this person as “The Girl Who Lived Forever.” Anne Frank, born on June 12, 1929 in Weimar Republic, was a young woman of integrity and self-worth. She was a Jewish child who attended Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam during 1934-1941. She was also the youngest sibling out of her and her sister. Her sister, Margot Frank, was someone that Anne looked up to while growing up. Anne and her sister Margot had both their father and mother still in their lives and their names were Otto and Edith Frank. Their family was like no other, but this is a story pertaining Anne Frank and what her life was all about. While juggling school, boy crushes, family gatherings, and just simply being a kid, no one knew what disastrous lives that they had ahead of them just by being Jewish. Anne was just an ordinary girl who had friends, went to school, and lived a life like any …show more content…

Van Pels died first in early October of 1945. He was killed in a gas chamber in Auschwitz, one month after his arrival. Mr. Pfeffer later lost his life to enterocolitis two months after Mr. Van Pels’ death on December 20, 1944 at the Nuengamme concentration camp outside of Hamburg. A month after Mr. Pfeffer’s death, Edith Frank passed away due to starvation on January 6, 1945. It was just two months after that her daughter’s Margot and Anne Frank died of Typhus disease in March 1945 at Bergen-Belsen. Anne was only 15 years old when she was terminated. Mrs. Van Pels later died on the first of April 1945 in Theresienstadt due to guards throwing her in front of a train. Lastly, Mr. and Mrs. Van Pels’ son died at the Mauthausen concentration camp on May 5, 1945 due to death marches. He died just three days shy of the liberation and he was only 18 years old. The only survivor among the eight was Otto Frank who in 1957 started the “Anne Frank Foundation” that works to educate young people against tolerance and discrimination. He then later died in 1980 at the age of 91 due to lung