<h5>Who was Anne Frank?</h5><p>Annelies Marie Frank (better known as Anne Frank) was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929. She is the author of the book ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, published in June 1947. She lived with her elder sister Margot and their parents.</p><p>Anne and her family were Jewish. In Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party hated Jews and wanted to get rid of them.</p><p>Fearing their safety, the Frank family decided to flee to Amsterdam (in the Netherlands) in 1933. They lived a happy life in Amsterdam. Anne was a bubbly and vivacious girl. She loved going to school and talking to her friends. She dreamed of becoming a writer when she grew up. Their happiness was short-lived, though, as things changed when the Nazis arrived.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/remembering-anne-frank%2FAnne%20Frank%202.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=f4b2fb1d-7aaa-4176-a0aa-4423d9fa91b3"><figcaption>A family photo of the Franks. Photo by Anne Frank House.</figcaption></figure><h5>How did the Nazis mistreat the Jews?</h5><p>In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands. They made rules and laws that made life harder for the Jews. For instance, Jews could no longer visit parks, cinemas, or non-Jewish shops. All Jews had to wear a yellow star on their clothes. Jewish children had to attend separate schools.</p><p>Eventually, the Nazis started taking away Jewish people and placing them in cruel concentration camps. The Franks knew if they wanted to save themselves, they had to go into hiding.</p><h5>Where did the Franks choose to hide?</h5><p>The Franks hid in the building that used to be Anne’s father’s office. They moved into a hidden part of the office. It was concealed behind a bookcase. Anne calls this hiding place the “Secret Annex” in her diary. &nbsp;The office workers didn’t know about this. Apart from the Franks, a few more people lived in the Secret Annex.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/remembering-anne-frank%2FAnne%20Frank%203.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=d945766e-4b4e-489c-96f1-3a62c16b1d04"><figcaption>The entrance to the Secret Annex is hidden behind a flipping bookcase. Photo by The Netherland-America Foundation.</figcaption></figure><p>Just before they went into hiding, Anne was presented with a diary on her 13th birthday. During the two years in hiding, she wrote about their new lives in the Secret Annex and her thoughts and feelings as she grew up.</p><h5>What did Anne Frank write in her diary?</h5><p>Anne wrote about her daily life in the Secret Annex. She wrote about how they all had to live quietly and how she longed to go outside again. During the daytime, when the office workers were roaming about, they had to be extra quiet.</p><p>They walked around in socks and had to whisper. They couldn’t even flush the toilet during the day! They had to take care not to fight or even sneeze too loudly. Everybody took turns doing chores.</p><p>Anne, her sister Margot, and Peter Van Pels were the three kids in the Secret Annex. Even in hiding, their studies carried on at home. People in the Secret Annex were helped by some friends of Anne's father. These helpers brought them food, clothes, magazines and news from the outside world.</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/remembering-anne-frank%2FAnne%20Frank%204.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=b9d2d501-7ca9-40dd-bfd3-69b856ec4970"><figcaption>Anne’s shared room in the Secret Annex. Photo by Anne Frank House.</figcaption></figure><h5>What happened to the families of the Secret Annex?</h5><p>After two years of hiding, one day, the Nazi Gestapo arrived at the Secret Annex. An anonymous informant had betrayed them. They were all arrested and sent away to concentration camps, where Anne died of sickness at the age of 15. Anne’s father was the only one to survive in their family.</p><p>After the arrest of the people in hiding, their helper and friend Miep Gies found Anne's writings in the Secret Annex. She kept Anne's diary, hoping to return it to her one day. After the war, she handed it over to Anne’s father.</p><p>He had her diary published. Since then, it has become an important part of history. It has been translated into more than 60 languages! ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ is an inspiring book, though very sad. In the end, Anne did achieve her dream of becoming a famous writer.</p>

The diary of this young girl, published in June 1947, led her to become very famous long after she lived.

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