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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
In June 1942, a 13 year old girl received a red-and-white-checkered notebook for her birthday…
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me.
Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.” ~ Anne Frank (20 June, 1942)
Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Following the rise of the Nazi Party, her Jewish family moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where Anne grew up and went to school.
In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands and from July 1942 the family went into hiding, in a “secret annex” created in an office building.
A few week earlier, Anne had received a red-and-white checkered notebook for her 13th birthday. She began to keep a detailed diary of daily life, until the family were discovered and arrested in August 1944.
Shortly after their arrest, the family were all transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anne subsequently died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945.
