Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is a very popular, number-1 selling book in the whole wide world. Before the diary became popular, the beautiful young writer Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She lived with her parents Otto Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer and older sister Margot Frank. Anne was born in a time where there was a lot of political chaos in Germany. Her family decided to move to Amsterdam when Adolf Hitler won the election. It was there where she attended school at Montessori. She was a very friendly, talkative, and outstanding young girl. She loved to read and do a lot of writing and journalism a lot. Even though she was very talkative, she was also secretive. She wouldn't even share with her best friends at school.

One day in May of 1940, Germany invaded Netherlands, so Anne and her sister Margot had to leave her school to go to a Jewish Lyceum. Then the day came. On Anne's 13th birthday, her parents bought her a red diary. She started to write in it instantly. She would write about her day, her family members, and how her life has been so far. Just when life was going good, Anne's sister Margot received a notice to go to a Nazi camp in Germany. Their father took his family to a hiding place. His employees helped the family there during these hard times. Anne thought this was a great adventure to be in a hiding place. She wasn't able to play outside a lot. So she just wrote in her diary and talked to it like it was her best friend. Anne Frank just hoped that as the days passed by, it would get better and better. And she hoped to be a famous writer one day.

Then one day, Anne and her family were arrested. Somebody betrayed them and other families that were in hiding with the Frank family, too. They were sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, where they were separated, men and women. Anne, her mother, and sister were separated from her father, Otto Frank. The sisters then got separated from their mother. Later Edith Frank died a little while later. Anne and Margot were moved to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which where everything was horrible and in bad shape. Even the food and housing was very bad. It was 1945, when a horrible typhus epidemic spread all through the camp. That is where the most saddest day came. After becoming ill and the typhus spreading, Margot and Anne Frank died in March of 1945. A friend of the family retrieved Anne's Diary and gave it to Anne's father Otto, and he fled back to Amsterdam. Once her father saw how smart and creative his daughter was, he took the diary and got it published while in hiding. Her diary was translated into English as Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Now her diary is all over the world and in different languages. It's in Spanish, French, Italian, and others you can name. Her diary became so popular that it was in plays and movies. Even though Anne Frank is no longer here, she will always be one of the best young writers in the world. If she were still alive today, she would be writing more and more books. I would want to ask her questions about being a writer at such a young age. All of us, the whole world would want to ask her this question. How would she feel knowing that the world has read her diary?