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Five facts about Anne Frank
In commemoration of Anne Frank's birthday, here are some facts about the infamous German-Jewish teen.
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A stamp from the Netherlands shows Anne Frank , printed circa 1980. (Shutterstock/-)
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nne Frank would be 87 if she were still alive. Born on June 12, the German-Jewish teenager, Anne became an icon of the Holocaust, the deadly antisemitism genocide that occurred from 1941 to 1945 under the German nationalist Adolf Hitler and his troops. The NAZI's are believed to have killed millions of Jewish people across Europe.
To commemorate her birthday, here are some Anne Frank facts:
Who was Anne Frank?
Anne was the daughter of Otto and Edith Frank, a German couple from Frankfurt. Anne's story became widely known when her diary was found and published in 1947.
Secret Annex
Anne’s family moved to Holland in the early 1930s and settled in Amsterdam. When Germany troops invaded the country in 1940, Anne and her family chose to hide in a concealed room called Secret Annex -- a room above her father’s office -- with four other Jewish families. Anne’s family house in Amsterdam has since become one of the city’s most visited museums.
(Read also: Dutch Holocaust museum exhibits Jeroen Krabbe paintings)
Anne's diary
On her birthday in 1942, Anne received an autograph book from her father as a birthday present in which she used as a diary that she called Kitty. To Kitty, she shared her stories between June 12, 1942 - August 1, 1944. In the stories, she described the relationships of her family and the events that were happening during her hideout. Before she got captured, she rewrote her stories with a hope that it could be published into a novel, but it’s never finished because she got caught and sent to a concentration camp.
Betrayal
The location of her family hide out was exposed and, in 1944, Anne and her sister Margot was sent to Westerbork transit camp, then to Auschwitz. They died from typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few weeks before British troops liberated the camp. Anne's father survived and returned to Amsterdam after the war ended. (kes)
