anne frank

Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929 she was a jewish girl On June 12, 1942, she received a diary for her 13th birthday. Tha
day she began writing in the book When Anne’s sister, Margot, was faced with a forced-labour camp, the Franks went into
hiding on July 6, 1942, in the backroom office and warehouse of Otto Frank’s food-products business. With the aid of a few
non-Jewish friends, among them Miep Gies, who smuggled in food and other supplies, the Frank family and four other Jew
—Hermann and Auguste van Pels and their son, Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer—lived confined to the “secret annex.” During this
time, Anne wrote faithfully in her diary, recounting day-to-day life in hiding, from ordinary annoyances to the fear of captu
She discussed typical adolescent issues as well as her hopes for the future, which included becoming a journalist or a write
Anne’s last diary entry was written on August 1, 1944. Anne and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen the following
month. Anne’s mother died in early January.