Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl. Her real name was Anneliese Maria Frank. She was born on 12 July in 1929. She was born in Frankfurt am Mein in Germany. She has an older sister, her name was Margot Frank. She was born on 16 February in 1926. Anne and Margot were very different from each other, Anne was very playful and Margot was very calm and quiet. Anne was even very popular with the boys but she had very much problems on school. But Margot was very smart; she had no problems with school. The parents of Anne Frank were Otto and Edith Frank.

This are Anne(Left) and Margot(Right)


In 1933 they moved to Amsterdam, after the Nazi’s gained power in Germany. There was a lot of unemployment. The Nazi’s sad that it was the debt of the Jewish people. The Nazi’s sad that the Jewish are bad and unfair. Everyone believed in Hitler. So he got the power. The Jewish people couldn’t live a normal live anymore. In Amsterdam was it safe, that’s why the family Frank was moved to Amsterdam. It enjoy the family Frank very well.

In 1934, Anne Frank went to a new school, the Montesorischool. Anne was always together with Hanneli Goslar and Sanne Ledermann Her father started a new company where he sold ingredients to make marmalade.

But on 10 may 1940 was everything wrong, the German’s army attacked the Netherlands. The Germans wanted to know of there were Jewish people in the Netherlands. The people that were Jewish get a J in their pass-port and they must wear a yellow star on their clothes.


This is a Jewish star.


There came many rules. The Jewish people can’t be on the street in the evening, they couldn’t go shopping, and they should live in apart areas and many more rules.
On 1 December moved the companies of Anna’s father, Opekta and Pectacon to Prinsengracht 236 in Amsterdam.

This was Prinsengracht 236. This was the building where Anne and her Familie lived. The building had 3 floors and a loft. The below ground was used to store things. The first floor was used for office. The second floor was used to store things like ingredients for marmalada. On the second and third floor it had also a part behind it. It was called the achterhuis. Not only the family Frank lived in this building but also the family van Pels and Pfeffer.

The Jewish people couldn’t do lesser things then before, but the family Frank tried to make a nice time. On the 13e birthday of Anne in 1942, Anne gives a party for her friends. The most beautiful gift that was a white-red diary. Before Anna’s birthday had the family Frank, van Pels and Pfeffer talked about to hide for the Nazi’s. They thought that the achterhuis was a good place to hide. Kugler, Kleiman, Bep en Miep help the families. They work in the office and were staff members of Otto Frank. On 5 July it was definitely that they went to the achterhuis. The entry was behind a bookcase. There were some rules: In the office time the families should be quiet, the curtains should be closed and the toilet could not be used. Anne shared a room with Fritz Pfeffer, he was a dentist. She writes everything down in her diary.

4 Augustus 1944, a warm day. Everyone was doing his own thing. In the morning there came some cars for the actherhuis. There came some people out of the car. They sad that they known that there were Jewish people inside. They were discovered. They must to Westerbork to work there. They don’t get much food. On 27 October was a selection. The strongest could get work. Anne wasn’t choose, so Edith and Margot stayed too. Because there was not much food, Anne and Margot were very sick. 3 weeks before the liberation Anne and Margot dies.

Now, Anne Frank is very famous, because she had written a diary. She told about what her adventures are, and what she thought and felt. In 1947 were the first 1500 exemplars. In 1950 the diaries were even in Germans and French. And in 1951 the diaries were in English and Americans.

sources: http://www.spreekbeurten.info/frank.html

http://werkstuk.freddoweb.nl/annefrank/annefrankfr.htm

http://werkstuk.freddoweb.nl/afrank/afrankfr.htm

http://www.scholieren.com/werkstukken/10196

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank