“ I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”- Anne Frank She never knew how her legacy would live on after her death. Today Anne Frank is remembered as a high spirited, energetic, loving girl, who went through things none of us can imagine. How many thirteen year old girls do you see today that could go into hiding for two whole years, without any link to the outside world? Annelise Marie ”Anne” Frank was born to Edith and Otto Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. She had one older sister named Margret, who Anne always looked up to. Anne went to kindergarten at the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam.
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Once Peter was carrying a sack of beans up the stairs and the bottom of the bag opened. The beans went flying, causing a lot more noise than Anne and the others living in the Annex desired. Since it was during the workday, the families sat anxiously, waiting for the Gestapo to come. Another incident occurred after everyone from the office building went home. The Pels were just about to go take their turn for the baths when they heard a crash coming from downstairs. They hurried back to the Annex to tell everyone to be quiet. They were sitting ducks until Frank and Hermann volunteered to go downstairs to see if the intruders had left. They had, and after everyone had filed downstairs to join Frank and Hermann, it was decided that they had been robbed. The front door had been broken off its hinges and a microwave had been …show more content…
When they came to the hanging bookcase that was concleing the door to the Secret Annex they found the latch and opened the door. As the Gestapo when inside, they found the Franks, Pels, and Pfeffer all scared out of their minds.The Gestapo went through everything in the Annex looking for anything of value, which included throwing Anne’s diary and loose paper all around the little room . They hauled them onto the truck and were taken to Westerbork, which was a holding camp located in the Northern Netherlands. From there the group was put on a train and shipped like cattle to the butcher to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a extermination and concentration camp complex in German occupied Poland. Anne and Margret were spared from automatic death in the Auschwitz gas chambers, instead they were sent to Bergen-Belson concentration camp in north Germany. In March of 1945, the Frank sisters died of Typhus, several weeks before British forces liberated the camp.
Otto Frank was the only survivor of the Frank family. After the war he went back to the place where he and seven others hid for two years. He found Anne’s papers spread everywhere, he knew that it had always been a dream of Anne’s to have her diary published. So he read through the diary and cut out the parts that were to personal. After he was finished, he took it to a publisher. Since then over 30 million copies
Once Peter was carrying a sack of beans up the stairs and the bottom of the bag opened. The beans went flying, causing a lot more noise than Anne and the others living in the Annex desired. Since it was during the workday, the families sat anxiously, waiting for the Gestapo to come. Another incident occurred after everyone from the office building went home. The Pels were just about to go take their turn for the baths when they heard a crash coming from downstairs. They hurried back to the Annex to tell everyone to be quiet. They were sitting ducks until Frank and Hermann volunteered to go downstairs to see if the intruders had left. They had, and after everyone had filed downstairs to join Frank and Hermann, it was decided that they had been robbed. The front door had been broken off its hinges and a microwave had been …show more content…
When they came to the hanging bookcase that was concleing the door to the Secret Annex they found the latch and opened the door. As the Gestapo when inside, they found the Franks, Pels, and Pfeffer all scared out of their minds.The Gestapo went through everything in the Annex looking for anything of value, which included throwing Anne’s diary and loose paper all around the little room . They hauled them onto the truck and were taken to Westerbork, which was a holding camp located in the Northern Netherlands. From there the group was put on a train and shipped like cattle to the butcher to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a extermination and concentration camp complex in German occupied Poland. Anne and Margret were spared from automatic death in the Auschwitz gas chambers, instead they were sent to Bergen-Belson concentration camp in north Germany. In March of 1945, the Frank sisters died of Typhus, several weeks before British forces liberated the camp.
Otto Frank was the only survivor of the Frank family. After the war he went back to the place where he and seven others hid for two years. He found Anne’s papers spread everywhere, he knew that it had always been a dream of Anne’s to have her diary published. So he read through the diary and cut out the parts that were to personal. After he was finished, he took it to a publisher. Since then over 30 million copies