Informative Essay On Anne Frank

Anne Frank was my age, 15, when she was murdered by Nazis during World War II. I can’t even fathom what she must have gone through in the months before her death. Through her diary, one can understand the hardships of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany occupied countries Anne Frank was born in 1929 just at the beginning of turmoil in German society. At the beginning of her life, Frank’s family was a relatively normal German-Jewish family living just outside of Frankfurt. Her father, Otto Frank, was a business owner and her sister, Margot Frank, was three years older than her. They moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1933 because of the threat to their lives because of their Jewish Heritage. After Germany’s loss in WWI, it’s spirits were dampened and it became very angry at the world. It’s anger was personified in the form of a man named Adolf

The families were separated, and in September of 1944, the family was transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp in Poland. Anne and Margot were not killed in the Auschwitz gas chambers but were rather sent to Bergen-Belsen, which was a concentration camp located in northern Germany. The sisters died in March of 1945 from typhus at Bergen-Belsen. After their death, their bodies were simply thrown into an unmarked mass grave. A few weeks after their death in April, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British. Otto Frank was the only member of the Secret Annex to have survived the Holocaust, having been liberated from Auschwitz by Soviet troops in January of 1945. Anne Frank would be proud to see how she is remembered by the world. Her diary has been published and her story has been told on both stage and screen. Her diary and her story shows how you can never really kill the human spirit, no matter how hard you