Anne Frank

My name is Annelies Marie Frank Hollander, but everybody call me Anne Frank, was born on June 12, 1929 in the city of Frankfurt. I was a Jewish girl of German nationality. My parents, Otto Frank and Edith Hollander. I also had an older sister, Margot Frank. In 1933 my dad decided to move to Amsterdam, by the number of restrictions imposed by the Nazis to the Jews throughout the territory of Germany.

But in 1940 the Nazi armies took possession of Holland, restricting the business activities of all Jews. The risk to the life of the Jews began to be also an inevitable reality in the Netherlands. The persecutions were the order of the day. The June 12, 1942 on my 13th birthday, my parents gave me a notebook in which I wrote my personal life and that of all those who shared their lives with me.

On July 6, 1942 my family took refuge in the annex of a house which is entered through a secret door, "a closet library", which I call it the "secret annex." We were supported by friends who donated food and other resources to survive. Then Herman van der Pels, his wife and his son Peter joined the Annex.

Then a dentist named Alfred Dussel joins the Annex. When the Dutch education minister calls - through the English radio - to keep the diaries written during the war and i decided to prepare the text of my diary for it to be a novel called "The back rooms" and then i start with rewriting, but before finishing, August 4, 1944, when a German command notice that we were hiding in the annex, we were arrested except for my father. In March 1945 I was contaminated by the disease of typhus in the Bergen Belsen and my life ends.

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