Anne Frank Sparknotes

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains”, written by Anne Frank. Anne Frank a young jewish girl born on June 12th , 1929. She lived in Frankfurt am Main Germany, where many generations before her also lived. Her family consisted of her dad Otto Frank, sister Margot and mother Edith. Anne and her family lived a carefree until, Adolf's sudden rise to power became more real and threatening. The family soon left Germany and moved to the Netherlands in Amsterdam.

In Netherlands Otto quickly started up a business called Opekta that sold spice and pectis. Anne attended Montessori school while her sister Margot went to a public school. Anne’s father tried repeatedly to emigrate the family to the USA, Cuba or England. Because of Nazi Germany declaring war on USA in December of 1941 no one was allowed to deport in or out of the USA. In case of a sudden need to go into hiding Anne’s parents had been preparing a hiding spot for the family. June 10th of 1942 Anne receives a checkered diary from her father for her 13th birthday. Which later is written in daily and becomes her escape of awful events happening around her. July
She wrote about her crush on the quiet and shy Peter Van Pels that hid with her family. She received her first boyfriend kiss from him but, later lost feelings for him. Anne also wrote about every other relationship with people in the secret annex. Anne had written negatively about her mother in the early time during hiding. Anne matured a lot over the time in hiding and the relationship between her and her mother changed. Members in the group said Margot was kinder than Anne which later made Anne become jealous of her sister’s kindness. Anne looked to her sister as a confidante and friend. Anne and her sister both agreed on how much they missed school and friends so often they would do school work. Anne’s last diary entry was August 1,1944, She was fifteen years