Biography of Anne Frank

Full name: Anneliesse Marie (Anne) Frank

Place of birth: Frankfurt, Germany

Date of birth: June 12, 1929

Died: February/March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen (Nazi concentration camp)

Literary genres: Biographies / Humanities

Featured books: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, more books...

Annelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She was the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Holländer. Her sister Margot was three years old at the time. The Franks and the Holländers were Jewish families who had resided in Germany for several centuries.

Anne's father worked at the family bank; Her mother was a housewife. For Margot and Anne it was a happy time. In the neighborhood where they lived there were many children to play. However, her parents were worried. Adolf Hitler and his party blamed Jews for social and economic problems, making them scapegoats. Anti-Semitism in Germany was on the rise.

On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank turns thirteen and for this reason they give her a diary. It was her most precious gift. She immediately began to write on it: "I hope to be able to trust you with everything (...) and I hope that you will be a great support to me."

In this diary she recorded her experiences in a hiding place or attic built in an office building, while she hid with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. Her family was captured and taken to different German concentration camps, where everyone would die except her father, Otto.

Anne was sent to the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz on September 2, 1944 and, later, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she died of typhus at the age of 15, a few days after the death of her sister Margot who, by then, was 19 years old. The exact date of her death is unknown, it may have occurred in February or March 1945.

After the arrest of those in hiding, Miep and Bep, two of the people who hid the stay of the Frank family and other Jews in Amsterdam during the Nazi invasion, found Anne's diaries lying on the floor of the house behind. Miep kept them all the time in a drawer of her desk. Upon learning of Anne's death, she gave her father Otto Frank the diaries, notebooks and loose sheets with Anne's notes.

Years later, Otto Frank would publish the famous diary known in English as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.