Anne Frank Holocaust Victim

Anne Frank was a very famous victim of the holocaust. She kept a diary that recorded a part of her life. Anne’s family was Jewish so they were hated throughout Germany and other places. Her life is a very important story that showed us what it was like during the holocaust. Anne Frank’s life is very significance as a holocaust victim because of the events that happened during her life before hiding, during hiding, and after hiding. Her life was extremely important because of the events that happened before her family went into hiding. Anne was born on June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. (eLibrary) She lived in the outskirts of Frankfurt till she was 4 years old. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Then in 1933, Otto Frank, her father decided to move to Holland or Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Rol and Verhoeven, 22) Her mother, Edith Frank, and Margot, her older sister, went to Amsterdam in December and Anne stayed with her grandmother in Aachen till February, 1934. (Rol and Verhoeven, 22) She also began schooling in 1934. (Rol and Verhoeven, 24) Meanwhile, Germany doesn’t want Jewish people in their country. There are more and more
All the “Secret Annex” residents were arrested and sent to Westerbork Concentration Camp on August 8th, 1944. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) One month later, in September, they were the last transport to leave Westerbork and go to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. (eLibrary) Then in October, Anne and Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in northwest Germany. (eLibrary) They both died of typhus in March 1945. (Rol and Verhoeven, 101) British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15th, 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Otto Frank was the only “Secret Annex” resident to survive the holocaust. (eLibrary) After that, in 1947, he read Anne’s diary and published it and named it “The Secret Annex.”