Jennifer Horner Prof. Barmann 10/29/00 The Franks were an old German- Jewish family. Anne, the youngest daughter, was born on June 12, 1929, in the town of Frankfurt-on-Main in Germany. Anne Frank records her feelings, emotions, and thoughts, as well as the events that happened while forced into hiding, in her diary. Four years later, in the summer of 1933, the Frank family moved to Holland because Hitler had come into power in Germany and had introduced strict laws …showed first 75 words of 1073 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1073 total…a few basic possessions, which they thought they might need and left with their captors. The news from various war fronts was very good, and it was obvious that the Nazis would be defeated. If the discovery had only come a little later, if the group had not been included in the last shipment of people to leave Westerbork, if Anne had not been sent to Auschwitz first, then onto Belsen, she might have survived.