A Young Girl and Her Diary

During World War II in Europe, the Nazis of Germany tried to destroy the Jewish people and their culture. The Nazis had taken control of many countries, including the Netherlands. In the city of Amsterdam, the Nazi threat meant that rift gold a young Jewish girl and her family had to spend two years in hiding. Anne Frank’s moving diary of those years in hiding has since become a classic book.

Halfway through the war, the Nazis began sending Jews to prison camps. So in July 1942, Anne’s family went into hiding in the back-room office and warehouse of Anne’s father’s business. Four other Jews hid with them in the small space,tera gold and non-Jewish friends smuggled food and other supplies to them. Anne was 13 when she went into hiding. In her diary, she describes daily life in the secret rooms. She also writes about her own dreams and feelings while growing up in hiding.

The family never once left their hideout until the Nazi police discovered them in August 1944. Then the Frank family was moved to the concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland, where Anne’s mother died in 1945. Anne and her sister wererift platinum sent to another camp, Bergen-Belsen, where they both died of typhus. Anne’s father, Otto Frank, was the only family member who survived.

Friends had found Anne’s diary in the hiding space. After the war, they gave it to her father, and he published it in 1947. Since then, Anne’s story of courage and hope has inspired millions of readers. Today, the Frank family’s hiding place in Amsterdam is a museum.