2. Early Life In Germany
• Born on June 12, 1929 in
Frankfurt, Germany
• Not strict jews
• When Hitler came to
power became worried.
• Father Otto was offered
a job in a jam factory in
unoccupied Amsterdam
• Moved to Amsterdam The home where Anne lived in Germany
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4. • Received as a birthday gift
• Originally intended as an autograph book
but Anne decided to use it as a diary
• Received before she went into hiding
• Wrote about mundane things but also, the
new laws being put onto Jews
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5. Going into hiding
• When the family was ordered into a work
camp it was decided that they would go into
hiding
• Not all of the employees of the jam factory
where they hid knew that they were hiding
there
• They were joined by another family
• Anne chronicled daily life
• The 8 people lived in only 3 rooms
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6. Capture and Death
• One of the workers at the jam factory
betrayed the Franks
• Anne and her family were sent to the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• Her father was the only one to survive
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7. The Book
• The diary was published by her father years
later in order to:
• Help his daughter realize her dream of
being published
• Spread awareness of the atrocity that
occurred
• It has since been adopted not only into a
movie but also a play
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