- Jeremy Taylor

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Anne Frank

• - Jeremy Taylor Bobby Solis

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Who was she?

• Born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12th, 1929 in
  Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank
• Was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go
  into hiding during the Holocaust
• First five years of her life, lived with parents
  and older sister Margot in an apartment on the
  outskirts of Frankfort

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Going into hiding

• 1st half of July of 1942, Anne and her family
  went into hiding in an apartment which would hide
  four Dutch Jews as well
• For two years they lived in a secret attic
  apartment behind the office of the family-owned
  business at 263 Prinsengracht Street
• Anne referred to this attic as the Secret Attex
  in a diary she wrote while in hiding
• However, during their hiding, they were arrested
  by German officials and sent them to Westorbork
  on Augest 8th
• Four months later they were moved to Auschwitz to
  a concentration camp where Anne and Margot were
  selected for labor

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Annes diary

• While in hiding, Anne kept a diary where she
  recorded her fears, hopes, and experiences
• Diary was later found in the secret apartment
  after the family was caught and arrested
• Diary was kept by Miep Gies
• Was later published after WWII in many languages
  and is used in thousands of schools in Europe and
  America

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Legacy

• Anne had lost her mother to starvation, her
  sister to typhus, and believed her father to be
  dead
• Three days after her sisters death, Anne herself
  died of typhus in March 1949
• The camp was liberated by British troops a few
  weeks later
• Anne Frank has become a symbol for the last
  promise of the children who died in the Holocaust

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Works cited

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Anne
  Frank Overview and Background. Ushmm.org. 22
  October. 2013.
• Staff. TheBestNotes on The Diary of Anne
  Frank.. TheBestNotes.com. 22 October. 2013