Anne Frank
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Biography
Annelies Marie Frank (1929-1945) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank. The family fled to Amsterdam in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Anne grew up in Amsterdam, attending Montessori school and developing a reputation as talkative, socially magnetic, and intellectually restless. On her thirteenth birthday she received the diary. Less than a month later, the family went into hiding. Anne spent two years and one month in the Secret Annex. After the raid, she was transported through Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She survived the selection and was not immediately sent to the gas chambers. In October 1944, as the Soviets advanced on Auschwitz, she and Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. Both sisters died there, likely of typhus, in late February or early March 1945. Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British forces on April 15, 1945. Anne Frank was fifteen years old when she died.