She was forty-five years old when she died in her bed in Auschwitz on January 6, 1945, ten days before the SS guards fled from the camp. The bread spoiled, but still she continued to hoard it, unwilling or unable to eat. She began collecting what few crusts of bread she could find and hiding them in her bed, saying that they were for her husband. The events which she had been through, the hunger, and the privation, had unhinged her mind, and she refused to eat.
Anne and Margot were included in this group, while Mrs. On October 30, 1944, there was a "selection" among the women at Auschwitz, and the younger and healthier ones were sent on to the Belsen concentration camp. At Auschwitz, she was still with Anne and Margot, though separated from Mr. Miep Gies collected the diaries and papers after soldiers left and hoped to be able to. Frank was included in the last shipment of people to be sent to Auschwitz from Holland in early September 1944. Otto Frank was given Anne’s diary by Miep Gies, one of the Dutch citizens who helped hide the Franks. Like the other members of the group, Mrs. The water was murky and there was no soap, but she went on washing, all the time." She said nothing at work, and in the evenings, she was always washing underclothing. The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, journal by Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who chronicled her familys two years (194244). There, according to an eyewitness, she was very quiet. Frank was taken with her family to Gestapo headquarters in Amsterdam and the Westerbork reception camp. This obviously was not easy for her, and possibly much of the bad feeling between Anne and her mother may have been due to this and the effect that the cramped living conditions had on everyone's nerves.Īfter her arrest, Mrs. In addition, she was living in cramped quarters, together with her family and another four people. It is an autobiography that was first published in 1947.
Frank was obliged to perform various tasks which she had not formerly been accustomed to doing. This lesson is an excerpt from Diary of a Young Girl or The Diary of Anne Frank. The Franks tried to continue living a normal life under the Nazi regime, but this became increasingly difficult, and in the summer of 1942, they went into hiding. When the Nazis came to power, in 1933, and the persecution of the Jews of Germany began, the Franks moved to Holland.įor seven years, the Franks lived peacefully and prosperously in Amsterdam, but things changed when the Nazis invaded and occupied Holland in 1940. They lived in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, and their daughters, Margot and Anne, were born in 19, respectively. Her husband was eleven years older than she was, being thirty-six to her twenty-five when they were married in 1925. Like her husband, she came from the comfortable middle classes and was accustomed to a life of relative ease, with most of the work in the house being done by servants.
Frank was born Edith Hollander, and her family came from Aachen, a town on Germany's western border, near Belgium.