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By: Primary Seven

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Anne was born in Frankfurt, Anne was born in Frankfurt, Germany on the 12Germany on the 12thth June June

1929.1929.

That’s 76 years ago!

But Why Do We Want To Find Out

About Anne?

Because she wrote a DIARY!

She was a Jewish girl living a normal life in Germany with

her family.

They were her Father, Mother and sister, Margot

On her 13th Birthday she got a diary which

she called,

Dear Kitty

It was the best present ever as she wrote in it

every day!

Germany changed in 1933 as Adolf Hitler came to power.

He was evil and didn’t like the Jews. He

wanted to kill them all.

Any Jews living in Germany decided to leave.

Anne’s family left Germany and fled to the city of Amsterdam in Holland.

But by 1942, The Germans invaded Amsterdam and Anne’s family went into

hiding.

It only took the Germans four days to invade Amsterdam!

Anne’s family hid in a secret house behind a book case door

in an office block.

It was called the

secret Annex.

They lived there for They lived there for two years.two years.

During this time Anne recorded everything that happened her and

how she felt in her Diary.

After two years the Nazis found out about the secret

annex and captured Anne’s family.

They were separated and sent to special camps, called concentration

camps.

Anne died at one of these camps in 1945, three months

before the end of the war.

All her family died except for her father, Otto.

He found her diary and published it.

Today we can read all about Anne’s life by reading her

diary.