One particular child that was very important during the time of the Holocaust was that of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was born in Germany on June 12, 1929, and later on, she, her sister, and her parents moved to Holland in 1933, where her father, Otto Frank, was appointed as the managing director of the Travies N. V. firm. While growing up, having little friends, and suffering from the anti-Jewish laws, Anne Frank decided to write in a diary, in which she named Kitty, so that her entries were more personal, in the thought of that she considered her diary, her friend. “Thirteen-year old Anne Frank began her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942, two years into the German occupation.14 On May 10, 1940, German forces had invaded the Netherlands, and five days later, the Dutch army capitulated. By month's end, Hitler had installed in the Netherlands a civilian-led government under the leadership of Austrian Nazi Arthur Seyss Inquart, who was to oversee an array of new officials and agencies imported from Nazi Germany and Austria.” As the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, she and her family fled to Amsterdam in 1940, in which Hitler had the Nazis …show more content…
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