Anne Frank

Anne Frank was born on 12 June in Frankfurt, Germany. Daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Hollandes, she also had a sister named Margot who was three years her senior. The Franks were a German-Jewish family that went into hiding for two years in Amsterdam. Anne's parents gave her a red checkered diary for her 13th birthday where she wrote her terrible situation and her fear of living hidden. They spent two years there, never once stepping outside the dark, damp, sequestered portion of the building. On August 4, 1944 they were discovered by four Dutch Nazis and on August 8, 1944 they were sent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. After several months, Anne and Margot were again transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Their mother was not allowed to go with them and she fell ill and died at Auschwitz. At Bergen-Belsen Anne and her sister both came down with typhus and died in March 1945. Otto was the only memeber to survive. Nowadays, you can visit their appartment and you can read "The Diary of Anne Frank".