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  2. Here are 10 facts about Anne Frank. 1. “Anne” was just a nickname. Anne Franks full name was Annelies Marie Frank. Anne Frank at her desk in school in Amsterdam, 1940. Unknown photographer. Image Credit: Collectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam via Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. 2. The Frank family were originally German.

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    • The “diary” Anne received for her 13th birthday was actually an autograph book. The aspiring writer decided it would be better used as a journal. She switched to two notebooks after the autograph book was full, and finally resorted to about 360 pages of loose leaf paper.
    • Anne wrote most of her diary in the form of letters to a person named “Kitty.” So who was Kitty? Scholars are divided. Some believe “Kitty” refers to Anne’s prewar friend, Käthe "Kitty" Egyedi.
    • Anne and her family were found when they were betrayed by someone—anonymous to this day—who knew where they were hiding. German officers raided the building and made arrests on August 4, 1944.
    • Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but not in the gas chambers. Emaciated, she had already lost her mother to starvation, her sister to typhus, and believed her father to be dead.
  3. Just Another Kid: 10 Facts about Anne Frank. Born an ordinary girl from Frankfurt, Germany, Anne Frank is remembered for her extraordinary message of hope amidst terrors of the Holocaust. To escape the antisemitism of Nazi Germany, Anne’s family chose to emigrate to The Netherlands in 1933.

  4. Jan 28, 2019 · Updated on January 28, 2019. On June 12, 1941, Anne Frank's 13th birthday, she received a red-and-white checkered diary as a gift. That very day, she wrote her first entry. Two years later, Anne Frank wrote her last entry, on August 1, 1944. Three days later, Nazis discovered the Secret Annex and all eight of its inhabitants, including Anne ...

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    • Anne Frank nuts. The Chesnut tree next to the Anne Frank House. From her hiding place, Anne Frank looked out on an old chestnut tree. In August 2010 the chesnut tree was toppled in a storm.
    • Miep Gies. In January 2010 Miep Gies died, aged 100 years old. Miep was a friend who hid the family in the attic above Anne’s father place of business.
    • Comic book about Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into many languages and is still sold everywhere arond the world. Not only has the book sold well, there have been movies and theatrical plays based on the diary.
    • Anne Frank is on You Tube. Anne Frank has been captured on film by accident. The video of Anne Frank has been uploaded to You Tube by the Anne Frank Centre.
  5. Anne Frank was born in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. Anne’s sister Margot was three years her senior. Unemployment was high and poverty was severe in Germany, and it was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his party were gaining more and more supporters. Hitler hated the Jews and blamed them for the problems in the country.

  6. Photos and Videos. Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl whose diary captured the horrors of Nazi persecution during World War II, remains an enduring symbol of resilience and hope in the face of adversity.

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