Anne Frank (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Annelies Marie Frank was the second daughter born to Otto and Edith Frank. Otto’s family had lived in Frankfurt, Germany, as part of a prosperous Jewish business and banking community for over three hundred years, and he had served as a German soldier in World War I. Anne, her parents, and her older sister, Margot, lived in Frankfurt am Main until 1933, when Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany. After boycotts of Jewish businesses were imposed, Otto decided his family should leave Nazi Germany. In the spring of 1933, he began working in Holland, where the...
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