- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAnnelies Marie Frank
- Nicknames
- Anna
- Annie
- Chatterbox
- El Dorado
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Born in Germany in 1929 and raised and raised in Germany and Amsterdam. In 1942, shortly after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, she and her family were forced to go into hiding to escape Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Hiding with another family and a dentist in an annex behind the building in which her father worked, Anne recorded their lives in her diary almost daily. In addition, she recorded her fights with her mother, her budding relationship with the other family's son, and her own maturation. In 1944, the eight people were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. They were separated and put in concentration camps. At age 15, Anne died there in March, 1945. Her mother and sister, as well as the other people living with them, also died. Only her father survived; on his return home, he found her diary untouched and had it published in 1947. It was an immediate success, as millions of readers were touched by her indomitable spirit in the face of such chaos. The diary is famous even to this day and was the inspiration for the Broadway play "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 1955. The play was adapted by first time in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), followed by Anne Frank's Diary (1999), The Diary of Anne Frank (1995) and The Diary of Anne Frank (2016). It inspired four TV movies, The Diary of Anne Frank (1962), The Diary of Anne Frank (1985), The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1980). The diary also inspired the mini series The Diary of Anne Frank (1987), The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988), Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) and The Diary of Anne Frank (2009). In addition, her life inspired Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story (1996) (about a Neo Nazi who back in time to meet Anne), My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021) and Mi ricordo Anna Frank (2009) (about her relation with her close friend Hannah Goslar), My Daughter, Anne Frank (2015) (about the relation between Anne and her father Otto) and Where Is Anne Frank (2021), based on the eponymous graphic novel, as well as the biographic documentary Anne Frank Remembered (1995) and Anne Frank, Then and Now (2014).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tommy Peter
- Analiese Marie Frank was born on June, 1929, in Germany to Edith and Otto Frank and was the sister of Margot Frank. Around the time she was 4 years old, Adolf Hitler took power in Germany, forcing Otto to make the decision to move the family to Holland. Anne had a very happy childhood in Holland, making friends and helping her parents try to understand some their neighbors (most of their neighbors, however, were like them, displaced German Jews.) In 1941, however, Anne's idyllic childhood ended when Hitler invaded the Netherlands, making some of the same racial laws in Holland that he had made in Germany several years before. Otto then decided he needed a game plan in case the worst should happen. He asked his assistant Miep Gies if the family could hide in the company attic if worst came to worst. She agreed but thought it would not happen immediately. Shortly after this Anne had her 13th birthday, and though she got a lot of things, the gift she liked the best was a red-and-white checked diary she named Kitty, from her father. She started writing in it faithfully almost immediately. Soon after this, though, a messenger was sent to the Frank house with a telegram that said that Anne's sister Margot was to report to the train station because she was needed at a work camp. The next day Margot, left to go into hiding; several days later, the rest of the family followed.
After Anne went into hiding, things did not look so good. For a girl who liked to talk, keeping quiet so that the workers below you could not hear them was not exactly thrilling. Over the next year, the Frank family was joined in their hiding spot by a dentist and some family friends, the Von Pelzes, including their 16-year-old son Peter. Anne and Peter would soon start spending hours talking and began a romance. Anne, however, still reserved much of her time on her own, telling her thoughts and fears to her diary, her one true friend. During the two years that the Franks, Von Pelzes and the dentist were in the attic, they were able to go downstairs at night to listen to the radio. One night there was an announcement that said for people to save their diaries, notes, and letters for publication after the war. From that point on, Anne started rewriting her diary taking out really personal information. Her last entry was August 1, 1944.
On August 4, the Nazis invaded the annex, forcing the 8 people out into the light. They were all sent to a transit camp, and then on to Auschwitz, the infamous death camp. There, Mr. Van Pels and Mrs. Frank died. Peter van Pels was forced to march east with other inmates of Auschwitz and died in another concentration camp. Before the new year of 1945, Mrs. Van Pels, Margot, and Anne were sent to Bergen-Belson. Bergon-Belson was slightly better than Auschwitz, but not by much. In late February, Margot died and several days after that Anne died, only a couple of days before the camp was liberated. Their bodies were thrown into a pit at Bergen-Belson. Out of this sad story there is a happy ending. When the Nazis arrested the Franks, Anne's diary came out of the suitcase that somebody was carrying. Miep Gies saw this and decided to save it in case she came back. About a month after the war was over, Otto Frank arrived at Miep's door needing a place to stay. Soon after, he learned that Anne's diary survived, and he read it. Several years later, he had it published in German under the title, "The Secret Annex'," so that she would not be forgotten and so her grandmother could read it. It has since been published in many different languages and has inspired two Broadway plays and a film.- IMDb Mini Biography By: CR/ EG
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesMargot Frank(Sibling)Helene Frank(Aunt or Uncle)Bettina Holländer(Aunt or Uncle)Robert Frank(Aunt or Uncle)Herbert Frank(Aunt or Uncle)Julius Holländer(Aunt or Uncle)Walter Holländer(Aunt or Uncle)Karl Holländer(Aunt or Uncle)Stephan Elias(Cousin)Buddy Elias(Cousin)Michael Frank(Grandparent)Alice Frank(Grandparent)Abraham Holländer(Grandparent)Rosalie Stern Holländer(Grandparent)Zacharias Frank(Great Grandparent)Babette Barbara (Hammelfett) Frank(Great Grandparent)Carl Benjamin Holländer(Great Grandparent)Bertha Sara (Menken) Holländer(Great Grandparent)
- Her mother died in Auschwitz concentration camp on January 6, 1945. Her sister died in Bergen-Belsen camp only a few days before her. Her father survived Auschwitz. Moved with her family to Amsterdam, Holland in 1933 because the Nazi party started to gain foothold in Germany.
- Cousin of actor Buddy Elias (1925-2015) and Stephan Elias (b. 1921).
- Is the youngest person ever to reach number one on the New York Times' Bestseller List, for her diary.
- Younger sister of Margot Frank (1926-1945).
- Step-sister of Heinz Geiringer (1926-1945) and Eva Schloss (b.1929).
- I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
- He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
- I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content