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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]
Anne mentioned several times in her writings that her sister Margot Frank also kept a diary, but no trace of Margot's diary was ever found. After spending time in both Westerbork and Auschwitz , Anne and her elder sister Margot were eventually transported to Bergen-Belsen , which was swept by a massive typhus epidemic that began in the camp in ...
Annelies Marie 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.
After Frank's family was arrested in 1944, the diary was found by a family friend. It was eventually published in 1947 thanks to Otto Frank, Anne's father, who was the only member of his immediate ...
Jan Augustus Gies (Dutch pronunciation: [jɑŋ ˈɣis]; [a] 18 August 1905 – 26 January 1993) was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands by aiding them as they resided in the Secret Annex.
A new series shines a light on Miep Gies, the woman who made sure that diary made it out of the Holocaust. Sheila Flynn writes Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust.
Anne Frank: the Biography. Foreword by Miep Gies. Bloomsbury. Francine Prose (2009). Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0061430794. Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn (2023). The Last Secret of the Secret Annex: The Untold Story of Anne Frank, Her Silent Protector, and a Family Betrayal. Simon ...
WHEN WE FLEW AWAY: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman @ScholasticPress. When We Flew Away will be published on Sept. 17 and is now available for preorder, wherever books are sold.