On June 12, 1942, Anne. Frank celebrated her 13th birthday. She received a
diary as a present. It was her favorite gift. She began writing in it immediately: “I ...
Anne Frank ~Childhood~
“My father, the most adorable father I've ever seen, didn't marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister Margot was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1926. I was born on June 12, 1929.”
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt , Germany. She was the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank and Edith Frank Holländer. She also had a sister, who was 3 years older than her. Their family was both Jewish and German.
Her father was working at his family’s bank and her mother was taking care of the house. They had a quiet life, until the 13th of March 1933, when, after the elections, Adolf Hitler’s party won…. the anti-Semitism was slowly growing in the country.
The Franks began to fear because of the AntiSemitic demonstratios which occurred almost immediately. In the same year, Edith and her daughters went to Aachen in order to stay with her mother, Rosa. Otto remained in Frankfurt, but after a while he moved to Amsterdam to organize a new business and arrange accommodation for his family.
After a while, Otto found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in an Amsterdam suburb and, by February 1934, Edith and the children had arrived in Amsterdam. The girls were enrolled in the Montessori school, Margot being very good at arithmetic and a reserved type, while Anne showed aptitude for reading and writing and was outspoken and extrovert.
In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company in partnership with Hermann van Pels but the discrimination against the Jews began as well. All Jews have to register their businesses. Later, they are forced to surrender them to non-Jews. Fortunately, Otto Frank, in anticipation of this decree, had already turned his business over to his non-Jewish colleagues Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman.
On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank celebrated her 13th birthday. She received a diary as a present. It was her favorite gift. She began writing in it immediately: “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you… and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”
Aaa:-
“The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.”
“one voice who speaks for six million-the voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl” (Ilya Ehrenburg)
Meanwhile, Anne had celebrated her 13th birthday and received a small notebook, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth and with a small lock on the front, as a present.
Hermann van Pels
Auguste van Pels
Peter van Pels
Fritz Pfeffer
“Peter's going on sixteen, a shy, awkward boy whose company won't amount to much...”
“They come upstairs every day and talk to the men about business and politics, to the women about food and wartime difficulties and to the children about books and newspapers. They put on their most cheerful expressions, bring flowers and gifts for birthdays and holidays and are always ready to do what they can.”
Miep Gies
Johannes Kleiman
Victor Kluger
Bep Voskuijl
“I reached the point in which I do not care whether I live or die. The world will spin as well without me, and I cannot do anything to change things as they are. I have to let it lie, to focus on my studying and to hope it will all end well.” “It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
“It was around ten-thirty. I was upstairs with the Van Pelses in Peter’s room and I was helping him with his schoolwork. I was showing him the mistake in the dictation when suddenly someone came running up the stairs. The stairs were squeaking, I stood up, because it was still early in the morning and everyone was supposed to be quiet - then the door opened and a man was standing right in front of us with a gun in his hand and it was pointed at us.”
•What happened to the people in the hiding after two years of living behind a movable bookcase?
“I can no longer talk about how I felt when my family arrived on the train platform in Auschwitz and we were forcibly seperated from each other.” Otto Frank, 1979
Every man and woman receives a number, which is tatooed on their arm. All their heads are shaven bald. They receive prison-camp clothes, because they are not allowed to keep their own clothes. The men are placed in one part of the camp, the women in another.
During the day, the women have to work very hard hauling heavy stones or grass mats. They often have to stand outside for hours on end to be counted for roll-call, no matter how awful the weather conditions might be.
These prisoners must then find a space in one of the already overcrowde d barracks.
Margot and Anne Frank come down with typhus.
They both die just a few weeks before the camp is liberated.
Anne Frank Her memory lives on
The diary and other books
What happened to the diary? • Anne Frank’s plan was to publish her diary after the war.Since by the end of 1942,the original diary was full,Anne filled a number of notebooks with her diary letters.In May 20,1944 Anne started a revision of her letters and created a second version of her letter in order to publish it after war.
• After the war,the only survivor was Otto Frank,who received Anne’s diary from Miep Gies and began reading it.He found out about the plan Anne had had-to publish a book about the time she spent in the Secret Annex
• In an entry from May 11,1944,Anne expressed her intentions to publish a book called “Het Achterhuis”,based on her diary entries.She also intended to complete the novel “Cady’s life”,in which the title figure will not marry her great love.Anne closes her outline with the sentence: “This isn’t sentimental nonsense for it is modelated on the story of Daddy’s life”,which wasn’t included by Otto Frank on the third version.
• In 2001,a new Dutch edition of her short prose appeared,edited by Gerold van der Stroom.In 2004,a collection of quatations Anne had copied from her wide readings,having the same editor,has been added to the series which bares the motto “ An homage to Anne Frank”
World organizations and international projects
Anne Frank Foundation & House • On May 3rd 1957, a group of citizens including Otto Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation in an effort to save the Prinsengracht building from demolition and to make it accessible to the public. On May 3rd 1960,the Anne Frank’s house opens as a museum,being of great interest for the public
• Otto Frank insisted that the aim of the foundation would be to foster contact and communication between young people of different cultures, religions or racial backgrounds, and to oppose intolerance and racial discrimination.
The traveling exhibition “Anne Frank-A history for today” • This is an international project and represents the best visited Dutch exhibition abroad • This exhibition is the central item in a serious of educational activities and has led to followup activities, in which young people play an active role • The exhibition is world-wide; from Caen to Buenos Aires, from Leipzig to Guatemala, it will be on display in more than 100 cities in 2006,including a number of towns in the DutchGerman border area
Movies and documents
The diary of Anne Frank (1959) • Runtime:150 minutes • Starring: Millie Perkins-Anne Frank Joseph Schildraut-Otto Frank Diane Baker-Margot Frank Shelley Winters-Mrs van Daan Richard Beymer-Peter van Daan • Directed by:George Stevens • The film won 3 Oscars in 1960 • The film is not taken exactly from her diary,but it is an adaptation of a play based on that diary.The play was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hacket and it ran on Broadway from 1955 to 1957 for 717 performances
Anne Frank remembered (1959) • • • •
Runtime:122 minutes Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh Diary excerpts read by Glenn Close Produced,directed and written by John Blair • This intense,richly detailed documentary paints a broad portrait of Anne.Those who have read the diary are aware of Anne’s indomitable spirit,but,in terms of an historical perspective,her writings cover only two years.Blair’s film fill in factual gaps,providing previously unrevealed facts about the Frank Family
The attic: the hiding of Anne Frank (1988) • Runtime:95 minutes • Starring: Lisa Jacobs-Anne Frank Paul Scofield-Otto Frank Frances Cuka-Mrs van Daan Victor Spinetti-Mr van Daan • Directed by John Erman • The film portrays the lives of the Frank family before hiding and during the period spent in the Annex • The first half of the shooting took place in River Quarter of South Amsterdam,the actual neighbourhood and square the Franks family lived in.
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