Anna Frank Biography Video

From G. After 2 years of life, she is arrested in the shelter. In the city, watch the film early years of Anna Anna Frank is born on June 12 in the German city of Frankfurt. She has a sister Margo, she is three more than Anna. In Germany - an economic crisis, unemployment and poverty are growing. At the same time, the number of supporters of Adolf Hitler and his party multiplies.

Hitler hates Jews and sees in them the source of all problems in the country. He plays in anti -Semitic moods reigning in Germany. The hatred of Jews and the unfavorable economic situation forces the parents of Anna Otto and Edith Frank to move to Amsterdam. Otto establishes a Pectin trading company there for preparing a jam. A postcard of the thirties of the XX century with the image of Mervedeplain Square.

Anna pointed a place on her to the right of the center where the Frank family lived. She teaches her tongue, acquires friends and goes to the Dutch school. Anna's father works without turning his hands to provide his family, but he has a hard time. Attempts to open the case in England suffer a fiasco. But he manages to expand his business due to the sales of seasonings and spices.

Soon after, on May 10, the Germans occupy the Netherlands. The Dutch army surrendered five days later. The invaders adopt numerous laws and orders that complicate the Jews of life. In particular, Jews are forbidden to visit parks, cinemas and shops. Anna is less and less go outside. Her father loses his enterprise, since Jews are no longer allowed to have their own business.

All Jewish children, including Anna, are obliged to go to a separate Jewish school. Anna in the graduation class of primary school, G. Jews should wear a yellow six -pointed star on clothes, and there are rumors that all Jews will have to leave Holland. When on July 5, Margo receives a agenda in a labor camp in Nazi Germany, her parents suspect something was amiss. They do not believe that we are talking about work, and decide to hide in the shelter in order to avoid persecution.

In the spring of the year, in the rear of the house on the Knightgracht channel, where Otto Frank's office was located, Anna's father is equipping a secret shelter for the family. In this matter, his former colleagues help him. After some time, four more people join them. It is very crowded in the shelter, Anna has to behave quieter than water below the grass, and she is often scared.

Anna writes a diary for her thirteen -year -old Anna receives an album for records as a gift. In the shelter, Anna keeps a diary in this album. For two years, she records all the events taking place in the shelter, as well as her feelings and thoughts. She composes short stories, tries to write a novel and writes out the quotes she likes from the books she read. The diary helps her to steal days in the shelter.

Hearing on the Dutch radio “Orange” the speech of the Minister of Education of the Netherlands, who calls for citizens to maintain documents and diaries indicating the suffering of the people during the German occupation, decides to rewrite and edit their notes, turning them into one coherent story called “Shelter”. The diary that Anna received on the occasion of her thirteen years.

Collection of photos: Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam Sheltes find Anna does not have time to finish the editorial office of her diary, since on August 4, the police burst into the shelter and arrests all its inhabitants, as well as two of those who helped the family hide. It is still unknown how the police learned about the secret shelter. Despite the arrest, part of Anna's notes remains.

Two other sympathetic family Frank manages to save the paper before the Gestapo devastates the refuge. Anna is deported to the Auschwitz arrested first sent to the German Security Service, then to prison in Amsterdam, and then through the Ausvitz-Birkenau Auschwitz death camp, Westerborn's transit camp. Travel by train lasts three days. Anna rides in a cattle carriage among thousands of other deported.

People are almost not allowed to eat and drink, and one single barrel serves the toilet. Upon arrival in Auschwitz, Nazi doctors examine the deported people in order to determine who is capable of and who is not able to engage in heavy forced labor. Near the fellow travelers, Anna immediately after that is burned in gas chambers. Anna with her sister and mother gets to the camp for women.

Otto - to the camp for men. Together with her sister Margot, she was sent to the Bergen-Belzen concentration camp. The parents of the girls remain in Auschwitz. The living conditions in Bergen-Belzen are as terrifying as in Auschwitz: it is cold and hungry there. Anna and her sister get sick typhus and die in February - first Margo, and followed by Anna. The only one who manages to survive the war is Anna Otto's father.

After the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, he returns to Holland. During a long trip, he learns about the death of his wife Edith. Returning to Holland, he receives sorrowful news of the death of Anna and Margot.Otto Frank in the attic of the shelter a few hours before the official opening of the Anna Frank House-Museum May 3 of the year. It turns out that his daughter dreamed of becoming a writer or journalist and wanted to publish her stories about life in the shelter.

Friends Otto are convinced of him to publish a diary, and on June 25, “refuge” is published in a circulation in specimens. And this is only the beginning: the book is translated into 70 languages ​​and serves as a material for films and performances. People around the world get acquainted with the history of Anna, and in the year shelter turns into Anna Frank's house-museum.

Otto until his death in the year continues to actively participate in the activities of the Museum and the Anna Frank Foundation in the hope that readers of his daughter’s diary will be able to realize the dangers associated with discrimination, racism and hatred of Jews.