The eight members of the Frank family and four other Jews hid for over two years in a secret annex of Otto Frank's warehouse in Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. They were eventually discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps, where Anne and her sister died at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945 at the ages of 15 and 19, respectively. Anne kept a diary during their time in hiding, documenting their daily lives and her inner thoughts. After the war, her father Otto was the sole survivor and had Anne's diary published, which has since become one of the most famous documents of the Holocaust.

1. Anne Frank in 1940
The eight people stayed in the small
secret rooms for over two years.
Only a few people who used the
warehouse knew that they were
there. Miep Gies, a Dutch woman
who worked for Anne’s father,
agreed to help. She and her
husband took them food. They also
passed on news about what was
happening in the war. While in hid-
ing, Anne began a diary. She wrote
in the Dutch language.
Margot and Anne Frank memorial at Bergen-
Belsen in Germany (Arne List)
The Frank family moved into
the hidden rooms in 1942. Later,
Anne’s father let four other Jewish
people join them.
About six weeks later, British
soldiers liberated the camp.
Of the eight people who hid in
the Amsterdam warehouse,
Anne’s father was the only survi-
vor. At the end of the war, he went
back to Amsterdam. Anne’s father
knew that his wife died. Yet he
hoped that his two daughters were
still alive. Later, he received a let-
ter. It told him that both died at
Bergen-Belsen.
After the family was taken
away, Miep Gies found Anne’s di-
ary in the secret rooms. She kept
it. When Anne’s father returned,
No one knows the day of Anne
Frank’s death. However, they say
that she died in March 1945. There-
fore, March 2020 is the 75th an-
niversary of her death. She is
popular for her diary, Anne Frank is
one of the Holocaust’s victims.
They published the diary as a book
two years after she died.
The Frank family lived in the
city of Frankfurt, in Germany. The
Nazi’s came to power in 1933.
Soon after the war began, Ger-
man forces took control of the
Netherlands. The Nazi officials
began to round up Jewish people.
They sent them to concentration
camps in Germany and Poland.
Anne’s father, Otto, created a
secret hiding place for his family.
It was in the warehouse where he
worked. The entrance to the secret
rooms was behind a large
bookcase.
The Franks were eventually dis-
covered in 1944. Nobody knows
who told local officials about their
hiding place. The Nazis sent the
eight people to the infamous
Auschwitz, a concentration camp,
in Poland. This was where they
killed hundreds of thousands of
people.
went to another camp called Bergen-
Belsen.
Later, towards the end of
the war, Anne and her sister
Both sisters died at Bergen-Belsen.
They probably died of typhus.
Anne was 15 years old and her sister
was 19.
Anne and her sister were among the
thousands of camp inmates who
died during the last weeks of the
war. They buried them in mass
graves.
she gave the diary to him. He typed
out the words and gave manuscripts
to several relatives. They made the
diary into a book. Since then, tens
of thousands of copies have been
sold. The Diary of Anne Frank has
been translated into over 70
languages. It has also been made
into a play and a movie. The secret
rooms, where the eight people hid,
are now part of a museum. This is
where they displayed Anne’s
originaldiary.
how they passed the time and
what she wanted to do after the war.
It also contains her innermost
thoughts. One of the most famous
lines she wrote is: “ in spite of every-
thing, I still believe that people are
really good at heart”.
The Holocaust is a time when the
Nazis murdered millions of people
during the Second World War
(1939 – 1945). The Nazis killed
around six million Jews and two
million Roma, or Gypsies.
In her diary, Anne wrote about
the other people in the secret rooms,
Like many other German Jewish
families, the Franks decided to leave
the country. They moved to
Amsterdam, the capital of the
Netherlands. Then, Anne was four
years old. She had an older sister
called Margot. Otto Frank, Anne’s
father, was the boss of a company.
It produced ingredients that were
used for making jam.
ANN FRANK