Anne Frank

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Anne Frank
Anne Frank was born in Germany just before WWII. She was a young Jewish girl who hid away for two years in an attic in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. Her story is famous because her diary tells a story about her family during WWII.
Anne Frank had a regular childhood. She was born on June 12, 1926 into a loving family of four, her father Otto, mother Edith, and sister Margot. Anne attended the Montessori School and had many friends as a child. Just like any other child, Anne had many hopes and dreams for the future. She dreamed of one day becoming a movie star or an author. Anne Frank had a childhood just like most children of her time.
As Anne got older, Germany began to become unsafe for Jewish people. Anne and her family were forced to move from their home in Germany to Amsterdam where things were much safer. At her new home, Anne went to a school for Jewish children only, which was very different from her old school. From that point on in her life things in Amsterdam began changing for the worse.
Different from most of her childhood, Anne’s teenage years were not very pleasant. At the age of thirteen she and her family, along with six other Jews, were forced to hide away in an attic away from Nazi control. For two long years Anne kept a diary, which she called “Kitty”. In her diary she wrote about her life in hiding. She told about her family’s struggle to stay quiet during the day so that they would not be heard. Hiding away in the attic for two years was quite difficult for Anne, at times she even felt like she wanted to go outside and run around.
After two years of hiding away, Anne and the others that hid in the attic with her were discovered and taken into Nazi rule. Upon being caught Anne, now fifteen and her sister Margot were separated from the rest of the group. Anne and Margot were forced to do labor work with little food and harsh treatment in many concentration camps. Whi...