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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.
Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 to a lower or middle-class Jewish family in Frankfurt, Germany who feels the early threats of Nazism as Hitler rises to power in 1933. . Soon her family and van dan emigrate to the Netherlands where Anne enjoys an idyllic life centred on school, socializing, boys and sleepov
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]
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 ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The museum built around a secret annex in a canal-side house where Anne Frank hid from Nazis during World War II has been renovated to better tell the teenage Jewish diarist's ...
One of Anne Frank's close friends is opening up about her final encounter with the young icon and the history of her diary. National Geographic is airing the documentary "Anne Frank: The Nazi ...
The Anne Frank House (Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht , close to the Westerkerk , in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The story of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid in a cramped attic with her family during the Nazi occupation in Amsterdam, is widely known, and amid the atrocities of the Holocaust, Anne’s ...