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The timespan from her birth to the beging of the hiding
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How the Germans occupied most of Germany
The Germans occupied Amsterdam in May 1940. In July 1942, German authorities and their Dutch collaborators egan to conce trate Jews from throughout the Netherlands at Westerbork, a transit camp near the Dutch town of Assen, not far from the German border. from Westerbork, Germanofficials deported the Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor killing centers in German-occupied Poland. -
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When the German Secret Poliece found them
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Arrest and Deportion
The Gestapo discobered the hiding place afeer being tipped off by and anonymous Dutch caller -
Consentration Camp
Gestapo official Ss Sergeant Karl Silberbauer and two Dutch poliece collaborators arrested the Franks; the Gestapo sent them to Westerbork on August 8. -
transport pt. 2
The transport arrived in auschwitz on Septemer5, 1944 with 1,019 Jews on board. Men and women were separated. The women selected form theis transprt, including Anne, Edith, and Margot, were marded with #'s A-25060 and A 25271. Records indicating their exact numbers have not been preserbed. -
Consentration camp part 2
A month later, in September 1944 SS and poliece authorities placed the Franks , and the four others hiding with the franks, on a tran transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz, a concentration camp complex in German -occupied Poland. -
Anne's Franks Family
Both sisters died to typhus in March 1945, just a few weeks before British troops librated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945. SSofficials also selected Anne's [arents for labor. Anne's mother, Edith died in Auschwitz in early January 1945. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the war. Soviet forces liberated Otto at auschwitz on January 27, 1945. -
Her Diary
While in hiding, Anne kept a diary in which she recorded her fears, hopes,and esperiences. Found in the secret apartment afeter the family was arrested, the diary was kept for anne by Miep Gies, one of the people who had hel[ed hide the Franks. It was pblished after the war in many languages and is used in thousands of middle school and high school curricula in Europe and the Americas. Anne Frank has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaus. -
Transport
On September 3, 1944, Anne, along with her mother, Edith, her sister,Margot, and her father, Otto, boarded the transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz-birkenau.
