Anne Frank's Story

Anne Frank was one of more than one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.

Her family fled from Germany to Amsterdam after the Nazis seized power in 1933. In 1942, the Germans and their Dutch Collaborators began to round up Jews throughout the Netherlands.

Anne and her family went – with the help of four people who worked for Otto Frank – into hiding in an annex at the rear of Otto Frank’s factory. It would eventually also hide four other Dutch people for two years. They lived in this secret hiding place where Anne wrote her famous diary.

The family were betrayed and arrested in 1944. They were taken to a concentration camp in Westerborg and from there were transported on the last train to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot were then sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they both died of typhus, in March 1945, just a few weeks before the war ended. Anne’s father Otto Frank was the only family member who survived.

Through her diary, Anne has become a symbol for the lost promise of children who died in the Holocaust.