The Life of Anne Frank and the Diary

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The Life of Anne Frank and the Diary

• the time will come when well be
• people again and not just Jews!
• -11 April 1944-

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Anne Frank

• Anne was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt am
  Main, Germany.
• Her parent were Otto and Edith Frank, she also
  had a sister named Margot.

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Annes Houses

• The Frank were living in Germany on Marbachweg
  at 307
• At the end of March 1931, the Franks moved to a
  street called Ganhoferstrasse at 24
• During the summer Anne, Margot, and their mother
  stayed at Annes grandmothers house, while
  Annes father was looking for a house in
  Netherlands.

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Franks Fled to Holland

• When Hitler came to power in 1933 he made life
  for the German Jews difficult with his
  anti-Jewish Decrees. Thus, many Jews fled
  Germany.
• The Franks fled from Germany to Holland in 1934.

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Life in Holland

• Anne could barely remember her first years in
  Germany, she quickly felt at home in Holland.
• She went to Montessori Nursery School until the
  age of six, then moved on to elementary school.

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The Diary

• The diary was given to her on her thirteenth
  birthday.
• She wanted to be a writer when she grew up.

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The Hiding Place

• The house was in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• The hiding place was called the Secret Annex
• It was above Annes fathers office

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The People in Hiding

• When the Franks moved into the Annex on July
  6,1942, they were latter joined by the Van Pels
  family and Mr. Fritz Pfeffer
• They stayed there for about two years

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Annes Room

• Anne slept in a small room with Mr. Pfeffer
  because of limited amount of space.
• She did most of her diary entries in her room.

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Helpers

• The people that helped those in hiding were
  Victor Kugler, Miep Gies, Johannes Kleiaman, and
  Bep Voskuijl.
• They worked on the second floor of Mr. Franks
  office.
• They bought food, books and reported everything
  that happened outside.

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Miep Gies

• Otto hired Miep in 1933.
• Miep was Ottos secretary
• She did a lot of the work.

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Life in the Secret Annex

• They had to close the curtains to protect those
  in hiding from view of neighbors
• Before any lights went on they had to darken the
  windows with black- out paper
• There was no movement during business hours not
  even going to the restroom

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The Arrest

• They were raided on August 4, 1944 by Security
  Police and arrested and taken to Concentration
  Camps.

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Life in the camps

• Anne came to the Concentration Camp on the last
  train leaving the transit camp Westerbork.
• After a month at Auschwitz, Anne and her sister,
  Margot, were transported to Bergen- Belsen
  Concentration Camp.
• All of those in hiding except Otto, Annes
  father, survived

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Annes Death

• Anne died of a disease called typhus
• She died on March 1945, only a few weeks until
  liberation.

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The New Diary

• Otto got the diary when Miep found out that Anne
  was died.
• The diary was published in June 1947, it was
  titled The Secret Annex
• After the initial release of 1500 copies The
  Secret Annex was translated into more that 60
  languages.
• In 1955 a play The Diary of Anne Frank was
  premiered
• Latter a film was aired based on the play in
  1959.

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The Life of Anne Frank and the Diary