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After the rise of Hitler in Germany, Anne Frank’s father, Otto, moved his young Jewish family to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. They lived happily there until the Nazis invaded in 1942. When the family heard of the Nazi plans to send all Jewish people to concentration camps, they went into hiding in some sealed-off rooms at the top of Otto Frank’s former warehouse, with another Jewish family. Dutch friends smuggled them tiny rations of food.
In her diary, Anne Frank wrote about daily events and the cramped conditions in which they lived. In spite of everything, she always seemed to remain hopeful, writing “I still believe that people are really good in heart.”
On 4 August, 1944, after two years of hiding, the secret rooms were broken into and the Franks were taken to a concentration camp. Anne’s mother died in one camp, and Anne and her sister died of typhus in another. Their father survived and published Anne’s diary, which had been found by friends, in 1947. Her diary is read world-wide and has moved many millions of hearts.

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