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ANNE FRANK

Anne frank is one of the most famous writers on earth. She got famous because of her diary, where she wrote about her life in the Second World War. These are just some facts but there are lots and lots more.

Anne was born in Frankfurt Germany on 12 June, 1929. Anne had a sister three years older than her called Margot Betti. In Anne’s sister’s baby book they wrote nice stuff like “the first steps and the first words”. In Anne’s baby book it said “Has been screaming past six weeks all night long”.
 
For the first five years Anne lived with her parents until the ‘Kristal Nacht’ or the night of broken glass came. The ‘Kristal Nacht’ is considered by many the start of the Second World War. People think that the Germans thought that the moon on the broken glass looked like crystals. That’s how that night got its name. The Nazi’s destroyed Jewish stores and houses. After that night Anne moved to Holland. When Anne turned thirteen she got a diary. She started writing in it immediately. After two and half months she had three hundred twenty four hand written pages!

 On Sunday July 5, 1943 a mail man gave a letter to Edith Anne’s mother which said that Margot needed to go to the central office which means that she was going to get sent to a concentration camp. Anne wrote in her diary “I was stunned” after she heard the news. It became really dangerous for Jews because they weren’t   allowed to go to shops or go to the swimming pool. The worst was that Jews weren’t allowed to go outside past eight at night. So on July six the franks went in hiding.
 
After two years they got discovered by the cleaning lady. After a while Anne got send to a concentration camp called Bergen- Belsen. Then a few months later Anne died of typhus, a sickness wich you can get when you don’t eat enough.

Anne is still honored today and there are thousands of copies of her diary in about 100 languages.  
 

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