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Born
She was born in Germany at the beginning of the holocaust. -
Started School
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. Frank was a bright and inquisitive student. -
The Beginning of it All
This event put into motion the most important event of Anne Frank's life; WW2 -
Got her diary
On her 13th birthday. It had red checkered print. She wrote, "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support." -
Went into hiding
Her family hid in The Secret Annex in a house behind a bookshelf. -
Found and put in concentration camp
They had been betrayed by an anonymous tip. The residents of the Secret Annex were shipped off to Camp Westerbork, on August 8, 1944. They were transferred to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in the middle of the night on September 3, 1944. -
Her Mother
She died at the famous Auschwitz camp. -
Death
Anne Frank and her sister Margot both came down with typhus in the early spring of 1945 and died within a day of each other. They were being held at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. -
Her Father
He was the only member of his immediate family to survive the concentration camps. At the end of the war, he returned home to Amsterdam, searching desperately for news of his family. -
Anne Frank House
After the end of World War II, the Secret Annex was on a list of buildings to be demolished, but a group of people in Amsterdam campaigned and set up the foundation now known as the Anne Frank House. The house preserved Frank’s hiding spot; today it is one of the three most popular museums in Amsterdam. -
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