She born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Anne lived with her mother, Edith Frank, her father Otto Frank and with her sister Margot, who was three years older tan Anne.
Otto was a lieutenant in the German army during World War 1, and later became a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands.
The Franks were a typical upper middle-class German-Jewish family living in a quiet, religiously diverse neighbordhood near the outskirts of Frankfurt.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the virulently anti-semitic Natlional German Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party) led by Hitler became Germany's leading political forcé, winning control of the government in 1933.
When Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 20, 1933, the Frank family immeditely realized that it was time to flee.
The Franks moved to Ámsterdam, in the fall of 1933. Anne described the circumstances of her family's emigration years later in a diary.
Anne Frank began attending Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School in 1934, and throughout the rest of the 1930s, she lived a relatively happy and normal childhood.
In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, in 1940, the German army invaded the Netherlands.
Beginning in Octuber 1940, the Nazi occupiers imposed anti-Jewish measures on the Netherlands.
Later, Frank and her sister were forced to transfer to a segregated Jewish school.
On June 12, 1942 , Frank's parents gave her a diary for her 13th birthday.
In July, 1942, the family went into hiding in makeshift quarter in an empty space at the back of Otto Frank's company building.
The families spend two years in hiding. To pass the time, Anne wrote extensive daily entries in the diary.
In 1944, a German secret pólice officer accompanied by four Dutch Nazis stormed into the Secret Andex, arresting the families.
Later, they were shipped to a concentration camp in Netherlands.
In September, the men and the women were separated.
After several months, Anne and Margot were again transferred to a concentration camp in Germany.
Edith Frank died on January, 6, 1945.
Anne and her sister both came down with typhus in the early spring and died within a day of each other sometime in March, 1945. Anne Frank was just 15 years old when she died.
Otto was the only member of the family to survive.
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