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Annelies Marie Frank,was born on June, the 12th 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, there she lived with her parents and her older sister at the age of 14.
Anne was a very happy child. She had a lot of friends and was good at school.
But she missed something, a real good friend, to whom she could confide everything. On her 13th birthday she got a diary as a present. And to have the feeling to talk like to a real friend, she gave her diary the name "Kitty".
The relationship to her father was very important for Anne, because he was the one she liked most.For her he was the most amiable father of the world.
The relation to her mother on the other hand was not so good, they had different opinions about life. In her diary she wrote once that she could see her mother more as a good friend than as a mother.
1933 the situation for Jewes in Germany got more and more difficult. Therefore Anne`s father moved to Amsterdam, the other members of the family followed one year later.
In the year 1942 the Nazis were in the Netherlands too and the conditions for the family Frank got unbearable and dangerous.
Anne`s father had to give up his business an the whole family hid in a hiding- place in the back- building. In this back- building the Franks lived almost two years with the family van Daan and the dentist Albert Dussel, altogether eight persons.
An exact plan arranged the daily live in the back- building.
Miep Gies and several other friends brought them food and all what they needed.
Naturally Anne couldn`t go to school anymore, but still she learned in the hiding- place, especially mythology and history.
At that time Anne fell in love with Peter van Daan.
The last entry of Anne Frank`s diary was written on August, the 1st 1944.
Three days later the hiding- place in the back- building was discovered by the police and the Franks and the others were arrested and later deported to the KZ in Auschwitz.Anne and her sister got seperated from their parents and came to the KZ in Bergen- Belsen.
In March 1945 Anne died shortly after her sister in Bergen- Belsen.
Anne`s father was the only survivor of the family.
After the war he came back to Amsterdam, where Miep Gies gave him the diary of his daugther.
Her father has published it; The diary of Anne Frank has reached worldwide fame.
Anne was always very optimistic in spite of the hard times, she made plans for the future after the war and never lost hope.
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