This detailed account of the Amsterdam annex where Anne Frank wrote her diary includes the stories of those who helped her and those who hid with her. For two years during the Second World War, young, Jewish Anne Frank lived in hiding from the Nazis. Everything she experienced, thought, and felt, she confided in her diary. She was just as frank in her descriptions of the seven other people in the Annex and of the five helpers who endangered their own lives to look after them. Years later, Anne Frank’s diary became world famous. The Secret Annex was so well set up that the hiders survived there for over two years. Who were these people, how did they meet, and what happened to them? This book shows the background and organization of the Annex and the personal stories of all involved, as well as their relationships and their fates. It also offers many never-before-published photographs. The result is an extraordinary group portrait that stays with the reader long after the last page is turned.
Anne Frank's story has been read by millions worldwide -- now this new book reveals the images behind her famous words. Will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, because writing allows me to record everything, all my thoughts, ideals and fantasies. This is what Anne Frank confided in her diary on 5 April 1944. Her wish did come true, but she herself was never to know that. Anne died in March 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was fifteen years old. This book tells the story of her life and shows it in the context of world events and World War Two. It answers the many questions that people ask. Where did Anne Frank come from? Why did she have to go into hiding? What did she write in her diary? How was she betrayed? What happened to her after she was arrested? How did her diary survive? It is illustrated with dozens of photographs of Anne, her family and friends.
Anne Frank's diary is one of the most recognised and widely read books of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annexe where Anne and her family hid from the occupying forces, before eventually being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Collected Works includes each of the versions of Anne's world-famous diary including the 'A' and 'B' diaries now in continuous, readable form, and the definitive text ('D') edited by renowned translator and author Mirjam Pressler. For the first time readers have access to Anne's letters, personal reminiscences, daydreams, essays and notebook of favourite quotes. Also included are background essays by notable writers such as historian Gerhard Hirschfeld (University of Stuttgart) and Francine Prose (Bard College) on topics such as 'Anne Frank's Life', 'The History of the Frank Family' and 'The Publication History of Anne Frank's diary', as well as numerous photographs of the Franks and the other occupants of the annexe. An essential book for scholars and general readers alike, The Collected Works brings together for the first time Anne Frank's complete writings, together with important images and documents. Supported by the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland, set up by Otto Frank to act as the guardian of Anne's work, this is a landmark publication marking the anniversary of 90 years since Anne's birth in 1929.
‘Anne Frank in the Secret Annexe: who was who?’ An exceptional group portrait that will stay with the reader. During the Second War, Jewish girl Anne Frank hid from the Nazis for two years. Everything she experienced, thought and felt in her hiding place she confided in her diary. She was candid in her descriptions of the others hiding with her: her parents Edith and Otto, her sister Margot, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer, and the five helpers who endangered their own lives to look after them. Anne's diary later became famous throughout the world. But who were these people, and how did they come to be living together in hiding in Amsterdam? ‘Anne Frank in the Annexe: who was who?’ provides a new portrait of the eight people who hid in the Secret Annexe, as well as their helpers and other individuals in and around the hiding place. The Secret Annexe was so well set up that the people remained in hiding for years, right under the noses of the authorities. This book shows their backgrounds, their mutual relationships and the grim outcome, as well as many photographs never before published which give faces to the main characters.
A photographic history that sets Anne Frank's personal story against the backdrop of Hitler's rise to power, the extermination of the Jews and the final Allied victory. This visual history documents the great evil that destroyed Anne Frank's world, but also reveals how racism is thriving today.
This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
The Search' showcases World War II and the Holocaust as a time when defining good and evil and right and wrong is a constant struggle and when every decision is an attempt to choose between the lesser of two evils. As the story unfolds the protagonists find that not everything is as black and white as they had expected.
This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
This catalogue follows a visitor's route through the Anne Frank House at Prinsengracht 263-267, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains many photographs of artifacts related to the museum and to the Holocaust, excerpts from the writings of Anne Frank, who with her family and four other people, had hidden from the Nazis in the house's secret annex from 1942-1944, an account of her life story, and five essays that provide historical background to the full breadth of the Holocaust and the meaning of its history today.
While searching his grandmother's attic for likely items to sell at a jumble sale, Jeroen finds a scrapbook his grandmother made during World War II. It brings back painful memories for her and she tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences as a girl living in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Guided by Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works. Each biography includes a glossary, timeline, and illustrations. An individual guide for each title provides reproducible activities to extend the text. Born in Germany in 1929, Anne Frank was a teenager during World War II. Because Anne was Jewish, she and her family were forced to escape the terror of the Holocaust that swept the continent. Beginning in 1942, Anne kept a diary of the difficult journey of her family. See how Anne's family tried to escape the horror of the war, and how her diary became her best friend.
The story opens in 2007 with Esther Hecht telling her grandson Daniel of her parents' arrest by the Nazis at the beginning of World War II and their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz with a neighbor called Bob. Esther manages to escape. Daniel locates Bob, who also survives the Holocaust, after researching on the Internet.
After recounting her experience as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, Esther, helped by her grandson, embarks on a search to discover what happened to her parents before they died in a concentration camp.
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