Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland. During the first half of July‚ Anne and her family went into hiding in an apartment which would eventually hide four Dutch Jews as well—Hermann‚ Auguste‚ and Peter van Pels‚ and Fritz Pfeffer. For two years‚ they lived in a secret attic apartment behind the office of the family-owned business at 263 Prinsengracht Street‚ which Anne referred to in her diary as the Secret Annex. Otto Frank’s friends and colleagues‚ Johannes Kleiman‚ Victor
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She was always afraid of being found in the secret annex. Once again‚ they were joined by more people. In November 1942‚ the Franks and Van Pels were joined by Fritz Pfeffer. Now‚ there were eight people in the small secret annex. All eight people had to live in fear and never go outside. They had to remain quiet during the day and also all had a schedule that they followed every day. It started with everybody getting
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and son‚ and Miep Gies’s dentist Fritz Pfeffer was famously chronicled in Anne Frank’s posthumously published diary‚ which ended three days before they were anonymously betrayed and arrested on 4 August 1944. After detainment in the Gestopo headquarters on the Euterpestraat and three days in prison on the Amstelveenweg‚ Edith and those with whom she had been in hiding were transported to the Westerbork concentration camp. From here they were deported to Fritz Pfeffer on 3 September 1944‚ the
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Anne’s last diary entry was on August 1‚ 1944 and they were arrested on August 4‚1944 so she didn’t write in her diary on the day she was taken. The Frank family was hidden in the Annex with the Van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. They whole Frank family was brought to Auschwitz in southern Poland. Anne and Margot were later taken to Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany. They changed camps because they were too young to die. They were treated Ruthlessly and cruelly. They forced to do hard labor. Most of the
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Imagine not being able to go outside for over two years and living with another family you have never met. As difficult as this may seem to believe‚ this is exactly what the Frank family and the Van Pels family had to go through‚ along with many other restrictions on their daily life. After the innocent killing of Jews during the Holocaust began‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced into hiding just like the Franks and Van Pels. Miep was one non-Jew who helped these families stay hidden by
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under the control of Adolf Hitler. The Franks and the rest of the Jews in Germany had to flee Germany or go into hiding to avoid Nazi persecution. The Frank family decided to hide along with another Jewish family‚ the Van Pels and a man named Fritz Pfeffer in a secret annex of a building. The Frank family hid in the secret annex for more than 2 years. There was a special young member of the Frank family named Anne Frank. Anne Frank kept a diary of the family’s experiences while living in the secret
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After the people in the Secret Annex were arrested by the Gestapo‚ the men and women were taken to different concentration camps‚ the men to Auschwitz I‚ and the women to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At the camps‚ they were treated horribly. When the Nazis heard that the Soviet Army was coming‚ they demanded to evacuate the camp‚ leaving dying prisoners. Otto Frank is the only survivor out of all the people in the Secret Annex after the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. All of the other people died either
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went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father’s office building in Amsterdam. The rooms were concealed behind a hidden door. Mrs. van Pels’ dentist‚ Fritz Pfeffer‚ joined them four months later. In the published version‚ names were changed: the van Pels are known as the Van Daans and Fritz Pfeffer as Mr. Dussel. With the assistance of a group of Otto Frank’s trusted colleagues‚ they remained hidden for two years and one month. Anne described to "Kitty"‚ as she addressed
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running up the stairs... then the door opened and a man was standing right in front of us with a gun in his hand and it was pointed at us... Downstairs everyone was gathered my wife‚ the children‚ the Van Pelses stood with their hand up. A few minutes Fritz is also escorted into the room".(Stitching Anne Frank) Anne Frank’s Death "On August 1944‚ everyone in the secret annex is arrested. Someone may have betrayed them. They are deported first to the Westerbork transit camp‚ and then on to Auschwitz"
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the Germans. She was one of many Dutch saviors of the Holocaust. For over two years‚ she administered food‚ shelter‚ companionship‚ and news of the outside world to eight Jewish people. The Frank Family‚ the van Pels‚ and a Jewish dentist named Fritz Pfeffer were taken great care of. By virtue of her gratitude‚ these Jews were fortunate enough to have Miep in their lives. Miep jeopardized her own life when she assisted in hiding the eight innocent people. She brought food for them secretly and knew
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