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Introduction to Anne Frank
Facts about Anne Frank
• Otto Frank, her father
• Edith Frank, her mother
• Margot Frank, her sister
• Miep Gies, worked for Anne’s father and helped them while they were in hiding
• Anne received a diary from her father on her 13th birthday
Facts about Anne Frank
• Spent most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands (moved there in 1933)
• Went into hiding in an annex (above her father’s office) in 1942
• Annex – an addition that extends a main building (extra room or area)
Facts about Anne Frank
Shortly after the Franks went into hiding, they were joined by: van Pels family (3 people).
A few months later, dentist Fritz Pfeffer joined the group.
8 people lived in the annex for almost two years.
August 4, 1944, the Franks were discovered and arrested.
1. Westerbork, a transit camp
2. Auschwitz, a concentration camp
3. Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp
3rd stop, Bergen-Belsen
2nd stop, Auschwitz
1st Stop, Westerbork
Anne Frank died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen seven months after her arrest.
Typhus – a disease transmitted by body lice and causes high fever
Sources:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005210&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=10008&gclid=CMGg9s3gxJ8CFQmdnAodOTr0zw
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