ANNE FRANK

Anne Frank was born on 12 June , 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany, and was the second daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank. Her sister Margot was three years older.

Of German Jewish descent , she and her familly moved to Holland in 1933, where her father set up a business. By 1934 , Edith and the two girls were living in Amsterdan , where they both attended school. From a young age , Anne showed an aptitude for reading and writing.

On her 13th birthday, Otto gave Anne an Autograph book bound with white and red checked Cloth and closed with a small lock.

On 6 July 1942, Anne, her sister Margot and her parents went into hiding, along with other people. Anne started each diary entry candid and eloquent picture of her life in confinement. It expressed her fear , boredom and Confusion at the situation she found herself in. Her diary ended in 1944 when the nazis discovered their hiding place and they were sent to concertration camps where she died of typhoid fever.