- Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929.
- In 1933 Anne, Margot, her father (Otto Frank) and her mother (Edith Frank) moved to Amsterdam.
- Anne Frank was a Jew.
- On Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday she received a diary, she named it "Kitty".
- Anne went to a Montessori school. Then because of the anti-Jewish laws, she moved to a Jewish Lyceum where she quickly started to adjust.
- When World War II started, her father and some of his office friends created an annex in the office. The family then stayed there in hiding.
- The entrance to the annex was behind a bookcase.
- There were 7 other people living in the small annex with her, only 3 others were family members.
- Anne did not get along with her mother.
- One day in August 1944, a little after two years of hiding, the Frank family was found and put into a concentration camp.
- Her father survived and later found Anne's diary and kept it, and two years after she died, in 1947, her father published it unchanged.
- The names Anne used for the people in her Diary were not their real names.
- Many children all over America read the "Diary of Anne Frank" in school.
- Anne Frank died at fifteen years of age.
- Over the years, several films about Anne Frank appeared and her life and writings have inspired a diverse group of artists and social commentators to make reference to her in literature, popular music, television, and other forms of media.
- In 1999, Time named Anne Frank among the heroes and icons of the 20th century on their list The Most Important People of the Century, stating: "With a diary kept in a secret attic, she braved the Nazis and lent a searing voice to the fight for human dignity".
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