The Life of Anne Frank

Anne Frank is a normal kid that’s a Jew. She has a normal life until it’s turned upside down because of the Holocaust. She goes into hiding, but that’s not enough. Anne writes in a diary to express her feelings. Two years into hiding, Anne gets caught. 

Did she get caught because of sabotage or by a coincidence?  Anne and her family were caught by sabotage! Anne and her family were taken to the awful concentration camps and the only one to survive in her family was her dad.

This is the real story of how Anne Frank’s life was during the Holocaust.

Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929. Anne was a Jew and it wasn’t going so well for the Jews at the time. When it was time for Anne to go to school, she had many friends, but she had to move to Amsterdam for her father’s business. Anne attended Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School when they moved. Her teachers thought that she was very bright and inquisitive. Her family was Otto, Edith, and Margot Frank.

They were a normal family of Jews with perfect and happy lives until...The German Armies invaded Poland on May 10, 1940. Anne was forced to go to a segregated Jewish school with only Jews in them and the Germans came up with these terrible laws that were unfair. Anne said,” This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”  Two years later, Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday. Anne loves writing in her diary. Anne said,” I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all the things that lie buried deep in my heart.”

A little after Anne’s birthday, the Germans get worse and the Frank family go into hiding. “The first thing I put in was this diary, hair curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb, and old letters,” Anne writes when they pack up to go into hiding. They find a secret annex inside her father’s store until they were caught two years later because someone sabotaged them. They were sent to concentration camps. Anne’s mom doesn’t make it and dies of starvation.

A few months later, Anne and her sister are moved to another concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen on October 30. “ Nice people, the Germans! To think that I was one of them, too!No, Hitler took away nationality long ago. In fact, Germans and Jews are one of the greatest enemies in the world.” It got really cold and Anne and Margot caught epidemic typhus. Margot died on March 9, 1945 at 19 years old. Anne died on March 12, 1945 at 15 years old.

After the Holocaust is over, Otto, their father, comes home and sees that all his family has died. Otto receives Anne’s diary and knew that Anne wanted her diary to be published one day. Otto was very surprised at how good Anne was at writing and decides to rewrite it and publish it. Otto died in Basel, Switzerland on August 19, 1980.