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1. 1. Over one million children under the age of 16 died
in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
Anne Frank was one of them.
2. Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager born
on June 12, 1929. Her family moved to Amsterdam
in 1933 after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became the
chancellor of Germany. On June 12, 1942, Anne
received a small red-and-white diary for her 13th
birthday. She called her new diary “Kitty” and
wrote in it every day. Anne’s diary became her best
friend during World War II. On July 6, 1942, Anne’s
family and four friends went into hiding from the
Nazis. They hid in small rooms above her father’s
office in Amsterdam. They hid for 25 months.
Everything about their lives became a secret.
3. But they were betrayed. They were arrested and
taken to Nazi concentration camps. In March of
1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne
Frank died of typhus. She was 15 years old. Only
Anne’s father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust.
4. After the war, Otto Frank found his daughter’s
diary. In 1947, he published the diary. He
wanted people to know about the Nazis
and the Holocaust. Since then, the diary has
been published in 55 languages. More than
24 million copies have been sold. In English,
the book is called The Diary of Anne Frank.
Anne Frank