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Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] ⓘ, Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ⓘ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) [1] was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. [8] [9] According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. [9]
Notable prisoners in Westerbork included Anne Frank, who was transported to Camp Westerbork on 8 August 1944, [5] as well as Etty Hillesum, each of whom wrote of their experiences in diaries discovered after the war. [6] Frank remained at the camp in a small hut until 3 September, when she was deported to Auschwitz. [5]
Telling Anne's story remains relevant more than 60 years after Anne and her sister both perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after contracting typhus.
71 years ago today, Anne Frank was captured by the Nazi Gestapo in Amsterdam. The Frank family escaped from Germany in 1942, out of fear of being sent to a Nazi concentration camp. With the help ...
In his 2011 autobiography I Was a Boy in Belsen, Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental recounts his experiences as a prisoner in the Bergen- Belsen concentration camp. [55] In The Dead Years - Holocaust Memoirs (ISBN 9789492371164), published by Amsterdam Publishers, survivor Joseph Schupack (1922-1989) tells about his last camp, Bergen-Belsen (pp ...
Frank and her sister Margot died just weeks before the concentration camp was liberated. Konig now travels to schools to tell her story. She feels she has an obligation to spread Frank's message.
Hannah Elisabeth Goslar was born in Berlin-Tiergarten, on 12 November 1928, the eldest child of Hans Goslar [] and Ruth Judith Klee. [1] [2] Her father was deputy minister for domestic affairs, and the ministry's chief of public relations (Leiter der Pressestelle) in Germany until 1933, [1] and her mother was a teacher.