The Diary of Anne Frank
SECRET ANNEX
BLOG SESSION
August 20th, 2017
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Today we will be exploring The Diary of Anne Frank further by going into the background of the SECRET ANNEX where Anne Frank and her family initially went into hiding.
The SECRET ANNEX
On July 5th, 1942, Margot Frank (Anne's older sister) received an official Summons to report to a Nazi work camp in Germany; the very next day, the Frank family went into hiding in a makeshift quarters in an empty space at the back of Otto Frank's (Anne Frank's father) company building, which they referred to as the Secret Annex.
The Secret Annex
The Frank family were all accompanied in hiding by Otto's business partner, Hermann van Pels, as well as his wife, Auguste, and son, Peter. Otto's employees Kleiman and Kugler, as well as Jan and Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, who provided food and information about the outside world.
The families spent two years in hiding, never once stepping outside the dark, damp, sequestered portion of the building.
What happened next was something that would change all of their lives forever, and would end the handwriting that had been taking place for the two years of hiding by Anne Frank.
Anne Frank's Diary
Captured by the Nazis and Sent to a Concentration Camp . . .
It was on August 4th, 1944, that a German secret police officer accompanied by four Dutch Nazis stormed into the Secret Annex, arresting everyone that was hiding there. They had been betrayed by an anonymous tip, and the identity of their betrayer remains unknown to this very day. The residents of the Secret Annex were shipped off to Camp Westerbork, a concentration camp in the northeastern Netherlands. They arrived by passenger train on August 8th, 1944. They were transferred to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in the middle of the night on September 3rd, 1944.
Upon arriving at Auschwitz, the men and women were separated. this was the last time that Otto Frank ever saw his wife and daughters.
The Frank Family
Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Anne Frank and Edith Frank
After several months of hard labor hauling heavy stones and grass mats, Anne and Margot Frank were again transferred during the winter to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where they both died in March of the year 1945.
Their mother, Edith Frank, was not allowed to go with them, and she fell ill and died at Auschwitz shortly after arriving at the camp on January 6th, 1945.
Otto Frank
In Remembrance of Anne Frank
(Anne Frank & Father, Otto Frank pictured above)
Anne Frank ~ Remains at Death
(circled in red)
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