Anne Frank Essay
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 A.M. a baby girl was born in Frankfurt, Germany. No one realized that
this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the world's most famous victims of
World War II. Her name was Anne Frank, and her parents were Edith Frank Hollandar and Otto
Frank. She had one sister, Margot, who was three years older than she was. Anne led a happy and
normal childhood, and on her 13th birthday she received a diary from her parents. It became
special to her as years went by. It is through this diary that much about World War II and Anne's life
has been learned. In 1933, her and her family left Frankfurt, a large Jewish community, and settled in
Amsterdam. Her father foresaw that Hitler's power boded disaster...show more content...
The crime was hiding. On September 3, 1944, aboard the last transport to leave the Netherlands,
Anne's family and those who were with them, were brought to the Auschwitz–Birkenau
extermination camp. By then more than 100,000 Dutch Jews had been deported. This last
transport held 498 men, 442 women, and 79 children a total of 1,019 people. This transport
arrived in Aushwitz during the night of September 5. Right after they got there, men and women
were separated. The following day, 549 people from this last transport, among them all the
children less than 15 years of age, were sent to the gas chambers, where they would be killed.
Women who had not been selected for extinction had to walk to the Birkenau women's camp.
Edith Frank and her daughters were among them. This camp was known as a "death
camp". They had a goal to get rid of all the Jews and Gypsies. By September 1944, almost
two million people had been gassed. After the arrival of the last transport from Westerbork, there
were about 39,000 people in the women's camp. Margot and Anne stayed there for almost two
months. They were then to be shipped to Bergen–Belsen. Mrs. Frank didn't want to leave her
daughters, so she stayed with them until they were shipped away. On January 6, 1945, Edith Frank
died in Aushwitz–Birkenau of grief and exhaustion. Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen–Belsen on
October 28. Margot and
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