How would you see the world differently if you weren’t able to walk outside because of your race? Luckily, we have a first hand account to help us understand what this might be like. Annelies Marie Frank, more commonly known as Anne Frank, was a Jewish girl that lived in hiding during the Holocaust. Anne Frank was born in 1929. Her family was a normal, middle-class family that lived near Frankfurt, Germany. She lived with her father, mother, and older sister. Her father, Otto, was a German Army lieutenant in World War 1.
In 1933, when Hitler took power, the Frank family knew they had to say goodbye to their life in Germany. This was a tedious and excruciating decision for Otto Frank because he would be leaving the only place he had ever
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In 1940, they took over the Netherlands, the place Anne had called home for the majority of her life. Anne wrote, "After May 1940, 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." Nazi Germany had constructed a remarkably limited and sometimes dangerous life for Jews who were living in this period and location. Otto Frank had to pass the leading role in his company onto the establishment’s non-Jewish employees, and decided to run the business from behind the scenes. Anne and her sister Margot were forced to change course and attend a segregated Jewish school. Due to the circumstances, the Franks attempted to emigrate to the United States. Unfortunately, their plan deteriorated and the family had to stay …show more content…
The Franks, Van Pels, and dentist were appointed to a concentration camp in northeast Netherlands. Then, they were transported to Auschwitz death camp. There, the man of the family, Otto, was separated from his daughters and wife. The two sisters performed many months of exhausting labor, then were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, without their mother. At Bergen-Belsen the conditions were atrocious. The sisters died of typhus within one day of each other in the spring of 1945. Anne was only sixteen years