Anne Frank
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Wars, Battles, World War II, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Holocaust
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Frank’s personal diary, which documents her family’s life as persecuted Jews in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Holland, provides intimate details and a perceptive awareness of conditions leading to the Holocaust.
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,...
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