Anne Frank was born in Germany in 1929 but her Jewish family fled to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape persecution under the Nazis. On her 13th birthday in 1942, Anne received a diary she named Kitty. A few days later, due to increasing Nazi threats, Anne and her family went into hiding in an secret annex of her father's business. They lived in hiding for over two years until they were discovered and arrested in 1944. Anne and her sister were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated. Only Anne's father survived.

1. Anne Frank’s Life