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              Anne frank was born in Frankfurt and moved in 1933 to the Nether lands. Her family hid behind her father's business in a secret annex, in Amsterdam. They were betrayed and arrested two years later. They died in a Nazi death camp in Belson.        

         Time Line of Anne Franks Life

     June 12, 1929: Anneliese (Anne for short) Marie Frank was born.

     Summer 1933: The Franks move to the Netherlands.

     May 10, 1940:The Nazis invaded the Netherlands.

     June 12, 1942:Anne gets a diary, from her parents, for her birthday.

      July 6,1942:The frank family hid in an annex.

     July 13,1942:A Jewish family joins the Franks in hiding.

     August 4,1944:Franks are betrayed and arrested.

      January 6,1945:Anne's mom (Edith Frank) died at Auschwitz- Birkeuau.

     March 1945:Anne and Margot died in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belson.

         Here are two of her diary excerpts

  "Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed." - October 9, 1942

   "It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more" - July 15, 1944

This is Anne Frank when she was born pictured here with her mother.

www.annefrank.com/2_life_excerpts.htm

world book encyclopedia volume 7 1995 edition