Anne Frank

Her history By

Patrick B

Facts and Dates• She was born on 12 June, 1929 – Frankfurt • Her mum and dad (Otto and Edith) and her

sister Margot – 3 years older• 1933- Hitler becomes leader of the German

Government• They don’t feel safe anymore so......

The rise of the Nazis

Emigrating to the Netherlands• Otto Frank sets up a business in Amsterdam • They feel safe again and Anne goes to school • WW2 breaks out • On 10 of May 1940 the Nazis invade

Netherlands • The Frank family are in danger once more

The Frank family

Going into hiding

• With the Netherlands now occupied by the Nazis

• Restrictions are mounting • They decide the dangers have become too

great so they now decide to go into hiding• There are four other Jews in the secret Annex

besides the Frank’s • It’s was not easy living in such close quarters

Their hiding places

Discovery and Arrest• 4th of August 1944, everyone in the secret

annex is arrested - Someone has betrayed them• They are taken to the Auschwitz concentration

camp• Anne is in the same barracks as her mother and

sister • Later, Anne and Margot are taken to Bergen-

Belsen• Anne dies there in March 1945, at the age of 15• Otto is the only one to survive

The barrack in the concentration camp

The Diary

• Otto returns to Amsterdam and discovers that his family is dead

• Otto’s friend gives him the diaries, Anne had wanted her diary to be published after the war

• It was published in 1947, and translated into lots of different languages and adapted for both film and theatre

Holocaust Memorial Day

27th January

By Patrick B

Holocaust Memorial Day

• Holocaust memorial day is for remembering the victims who were effected by the holocaust

• The Nazi concentration camps were a place where they used many different ways to kill their victims

• The date of the memorial day is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

• The memorial day also remembers victims of other genocides such as Rwanda and Cambodia

This is one of the camps

Dates to Remember

• 1919-1933 The rise of the Nazi party • The people who were most persecuted were

Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, coloured people and people who didn’t support the Nazis