Anne Frank

Anne Frank was born to Otto and Edith Frank in Frankfurt, Germany. She had an older sister, Margot, and grew up in a close-knit family that valued education and culture.

To escape the rising tide of Nazism, the Frank family moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. They settled into a new life, hoping for safety and stability away from Germany.

Anne begins her education at a Montessori school in Amsterdam, where she thrives academically and socially. The progressive teaching methods foster her curiosity and independence.

The Nazi invasion of the Netherlands brings fear and uncertainty to the Frank family. Anne's world is turned upside down as anti-Semitic laws begin to restrict their daily lives.

On her 13th birthday, Anne receives a red-checked diary. It becomes her most cherished possession and a record of her thoughts and experiences during the war.

Following Margot's summons to a labor camp, the Frank family, along with four others, goes into hiding in the secret annex above Otto Frank's office building. Anne starts documenting their life in hiding.

Anne writes prolifically in the annex, recording her hopes, fears, and daily struggles. Her entries reveal a deep understanding of human nature and a longing for freedom.

The hidden group is betrayed and arrested by the Nazi authorities. Anne, along with her family and the others, is deported to concentration camps.

Anne and her sister Margot are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. They endure harsh conditions and are later separated from their parents.

Anne and Margot succumb to typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1945, just months before the camp's liberation by British troops. Their deaths were a tragic loss to humanity.