After the Nazis gained control over

Germany, Anne Frank and her family moved

to the Netherlands. By May 1940, the
Germans having occupied the Netherlands,
resulted in the Franks being trapped in
Amsterdam. The family went into hiding
inside the building where Annes father

Frank Family
worked when the amount of Jewish
persecutions increased in July 1942. They
hid in concealed rooms behind a bookcase
Otto Frank, Anne's father
within the building. The Frank family stayed
in hiding for two years until they were
arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944.
Throughout their time in hiding, Anne Frank
regularly wrote in a diary that was given to
her on her 13th birthday. The Franks were
transported to the Auschwitz camp complex
one month later and following that, in late Photograph of Anne Frank

October, 1944, Anne and her sister, Margo,
were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp.
Annelies Marie Frank, most
commonly known as Anne Frank,
was born to Otto and Edith Frank on
June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt Germany.
Edith Frank, Anne's mother

Just a few weeks before the British

troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on
April 15, 1945, both Anne and Margo
died of typhus. Edith, Annes mother,
died in early January, 1945, in
Auschwitz. Annes father, Otto, was
the only one who survived out of the
Frank family as he was liberated at
Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, by
Soviet forces.
Excerpt from Anne Franks' Diary Margot Frank, Anne's sister