Hvem var Anne Frank? translation: Who was Anne Frank?

Anne Frank is the daughter of Edith and Otto Frank. She is the younger sister of Margot Frank whom Anne describes as being perfect: brilliant and obedient. Anne has just turned thirteen years old when she gets a diary for her birthday. Because she feels she does not have the one true friend whom she desires, she writes her journal in a form of letters to an imaginary girl named Kitty. Anne and her family are living in Holland during the time of Hitler’s Nazi reign in Germany. Several years prior to Anne beginning her diary, the family had fled from Germany to Holland to escape Hitler’s persecution of the Jews. However, these rules spread into Holland and Anne describes the way they, as a Jewish family, are not allowed to ride on public transportation or shop in certain stores just because of their religious beliefs. Shortly after Anne begins her diary, Sixteen year old Margot receives her call up papers to go to a Nazi work camp. The family had already planned to go into hiding, but their plans are pushed forward in an attempt to save their daughter.

Anne’s diary details what life was like in hiding for herself, her family and the four other people who took refuge in the Secret Annex, a hidden set of rooms in Anne’s father’s former office building. It tells of the people who risked their own lives to help hide the families, get them food and supplies, and try to keep their spirits up while in hiding. Anne writes of the guilt she feels knowing her friends and schoolmates have been arrested and sent to concentration camps. She details air raids, the noise of guns and fighting in the night, and bombs being dropped. She writes of their fear of being found and holds out hope that they will survive until the war is over and she can pursue the career in journalism that she wants. Despite the persecution she and her family have endured Anne believes to the very end of her diary that people are truly good at heart. Anne’s diary ends on Aug. 1, 1944. Information in the foreword of the book indicates the eight were arrested four days later. Anne died in a concentration camp sometime in early 1945. She was only fifteen.