Anne frank brief biography of thomas
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List of people associated with Anne Frank
Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – February 1945)[1] was a German-born Jewish girl who, along with her family and four other people, hid in the second and third floor rooms at the back of her father's Amsterdam company during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Helped by several trusted employees of the company, the group of eight survived in the achterhuis (literally "back-house", usually translated as "secret annex") for more than two years before they were betrayed, and arrested. Anne kept a diary from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944, three days before the residents of the annex were arrested. Anne mentioned several times in her writings that her sister Margot Frank also kept a diary, but no trace of Margot's diary was ever found.
After spending time in both Westerbork and Auschwitz, Anne and her elder sister Margot were eventually transported to Bergen-Belsen, which was swept by a massive typhusepidemic th
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Anne Frank’s brilliant and complex Diary of a Young Girl (1947; definitive edition 1995) has the power to engage the reader’s deepest sympathy. It has been translated into more than sixty languages and has sold more than thirty million copies to adults and children around the world. As she moved towards self-awareness and maturity, Anne spontaneously and intuitively incorporated several kinds of books in her Diary. It belongs with the works of precocious writers, with the diaries of young girls, with accounts of the accelerated development of wise children, and with narratives of people hiding from oppressive authority and affirming their independent existence while threatened with death. Placing her Diary in the context of these literary genres illuminates the meaning of her book.
The works of the most precocious writers include Daisy Ashford’s popular The Young Visiters (1919), which she wrote when she was only nine years old; Rudyard Kipling’s journalistic ske
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Anne Frank as Idea and Inspiration | Jewish Book Council
A few years ago, Deutsche Bahn, the German national railroad, announced a new fleet of high-speed trains. Their strategi was to name each one after a German luminary, including Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Anne Frank. Anne grew up in the Netherlands and wrote her famous diary in Dutch, but she was born in Frankfurt to a German Jewish family.
The outcry was immediate. “DB is naming trains after victims of deportation bygd train, starting with Anne Frank,” one journalist tweeted. Others defended the choice, arguing that Anne has become known as a symbol of the “peaceful co-existence of different cultures.” Even the Auschwitz Museum weighed in to point out that linking a train with Anne — who was deported to Auschwitz in early September 1944 and from there to Bergen-Belsen, where she died in February 1945 — was “still painful for the people who e