Anne Frank: A Brief Biography

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Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family consisted of her father Otto Frank who she called Pim, her mother Edith Frank, and her sister Margot Frank. Anne’s full name was Anneliese Marie Frank, but she preferred just Anne. As a young girl Anne had a normal life and lived in an upper middle-class family. She moved to Amsterdam in 1933 where she attended Sixth Montessori School. She lived a perfectly normal childhood with plenty of friends. But that would all soon change.

Anne’s father moved his family to Amsterdam for business and because Germany was now being ran by Hitler. There he owned a business called Opekta. Life was good for the Franks until the Nazis started coming into Amsterdam. Otto signed his business

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