Anne Frank"s family

the extraordinary story of where she came from based on more than 6,000 newly discovered letters, documents, and photos

by Mirjam Pressler

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• 30 Currently reading

Published 2012 by Anchor Books in New York .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Family,
• Jews,
• Biography

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Edition Notes

Statement	Mirjam Pressler with Gerti Elias ; translated from the German by Damion Searls
Contributions	Elias, Gerti, 1933-
Classifications
LC Classifications	DS134.42.F73 P7413 2012
The Physical Object
Pagination	vi, 404 p. :
Number of Pages	404
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL25368699M
ISBN 10	9780307739414
LC Control Number	2012374418

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  A new book has provided what it claims is fresh evidence that Anne Frank and her family were betrayed by a Jewish woman who was executed Author: Daniel Boffey. Anne Frank's Diary is not a novel or a tale of the imagination. It is the diary kept by a young Jewish girl for the two years she was forced to remain in hiding by the Nazi persecution of the Jews of Europe. Between June and August , from Anne's thirteenth birthday until shortly after her fifteenth birthday, Anne Frank recorded her.

  While the Frank family were in hiding for 25 months (), Anne’s diary was a historical record of her time in the secret annex. "Our many Jewish friends and . Anne Frank started reading books at a young age. Her parents encouraged her and her siblings to, as it would make them more educated. A few years later, Frankfurt held a ballot for community council.   Anne Frank's beautifully written diary is a teaching tool on multiple levels. First, it offers a kid's eye view of World War II, written innocently and meaningfully by a Jewish teen whose family is forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Anne follows the events of the war via radio news broadcasts and information shared by 5/5.

  The other members of the Frank family followed a bit later, with Anne being the last to arrive in Amsterdam in February The Franks quickly settled into life in Amsterdam. While Otto Frank focused on building up his business, Anne and Margot started at their new schools and made a large circle of Jewish and non-Jewish : Jennifer Rosenberg. As she often does in her diary, Anne writes about Margot’s intelligence, kindness, and beauty and claims that, as a result of Margot’s merits, Anne receives worse treatment from her parents. She longs to be taken seriously but, as in many family relationships, seems . Anne Frank and her family fled Germany after the Nazis seized power in and resettled in the Netherlands, where her father, Otto, had business connections. The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May , and two years later German authorities with help from their Dutch collaborators began rounding up Jews and ultimately deported them to killing.