Anne Frank - a young girl like so many others

Anne Frank was born on June, 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank and her father was Otto Frank. She also had a sister named Margot Frank. While in hiding from the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, she wrote a diary, well-known today, The Diary of Anne Frank. 

She left Germany with her family to escape Hitler's laws against the Jews, and immigrated to The Netherlands, where her father became a director of a company that made jelly products. Anne and her sister Margot studied at Montessori School and then went to the Israeli High School. During World War II, in May 1940, The Netherlands was invaded by the Nazis. By this time restrictions against the Jews began with a series of anti-Semitic decrees: they had to wear the yellow star of David for identification and were subjected to various prohibitions, such as walking in buses, or go to theaters, cinemas or any other form of entertainment, they couldn't even ride a bike. On June 12th, 1942, when she was 13 years old, Anne received a diary and on that same day she began to write her daily life.

By Afonso Sousa, Student , Portugal 

On July 9th, 1942, in order not to be arrested, the family of Anne Frank moved to a hiding place, located in the Prinsengrecht, 263, with four more Jews, in the factory where Otto Frank worked. The family stayed there until August 4th, 1944. Anne Frank reported in her diary the conflicts of a teenager and the tension of living and surviving on stored food (that they received with the help of friends), the suffering of war, the bombardments that terrorized the family, and the possibility of the "secret annex" to be discovered and all of them to be shot dead. 

On the morning of August 4th, 1944, the hiding place of the family was invaded by the Gestapo police and the eight people were taken to a prison in Amsterdam, then transferred to Westerbork. On September 3th, they were deported to Auschwitz in Poland. Edith Frank died at Auschwitz Birkenau on January 6th, 1945, from hunger and exhaustion.

Anne and her sister were taken to Bergen-Belsen, near Hannover (Germany). The epidemic of typhus that struck the place in the winter, as a result of the living conditions of the prisoners, has killed thousands of people, including Margot and, a few days later, Anne.

Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, on February, 1945, with only 15 years of age.