How is anne frank important

Anne Frank. Jewish policemen in the ghetto. Rescue and the Holocaust. By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. Sign up for our e-newsletter.

Search our website. Back to Information cards. Published in. Comments None 07 Sep, I don't know whether her book was edited by some author but truly it's beautiful. LucyMV 06 Sep, Mrt 10 Aug, I read that book. It was gloomy to witness cruelty. But hope is worth to struggle for. I sometimes wonder, if it was ever edited by another author for effect or if the diary was left untouched in its essence and spirit. See more. Popular Discussions. She was the second and youngest child of an assimilated Jewish family.

Her sister, Margot Betti Frank, who was three years older than Anne, also wrote a diary — although it has never been found. Margot was the more studious sister. Anne, while intelligent, was often distracted by talking to her friends during school. Anne chose her own diary — an autograph book bound with white and red checked cloth, and closed with a small lock — as a present for her 13th birthday.

This birthday, on Friday 12 June , was the last before she and her family went into hiding. Anne also enjoyed a party with a strawberry pie and a room decorated with flowers. The Franks were soon joined by four other Jews: Hermann and Auguste van Pels with their son Peter the boy Anne was to fall in love with , and for a time, Fritz Pfeffer, a German dentist. The entrance to the annex was concealed behind a moveable bookcase. During that time she was unable to see the sky, could not feel the rain or sun, walk on grass, or even walk for any length of time.

Anne, Margot and their mother were sent to the labour camp for women. Otto ended up in a camp for men. In early November , Anne was put on transport again. She was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with Margot.

Their parents stayed behind in Auschwitz. The conditions in Bergen-Belsen were horrible too. There was a lack of food, it was cold, wet and there were contagious diseases. Anne and Margot contracted typhus.

In February they both died owing to its effects, Margot first, Anne shortly afterwards. He was liberated from Auschwitz by the Russians and during his long journey back to the Netherlands he learned that his wife Edith had died.

Once in the Netherlands, he heard that Anne and Margot were no longer alive either. Anne's writing made a deep impression on Otto. He read that Anne had wanted to become a writer or a journalist and that she had intended to publish her stories about life in the Secret Annex.

And that was not all: the book was later translated into around 70 languages and adapted for stage and screen.