Anne Frank

   Imagine what it would be like to live in a tiny apartment with eight other people and no one can know you are there. Anne Frank, her family, and friends were Jews in hiding during World War II. Earlier this year, we read Number the Stars which was also about Jews in hiding. In that story, AnneMarie helped her Jewish friends hide.

   The story of AnneMarie is fiction, but the story of Anne Frank is non-fiction. Anne Frank kept a diary while her family hid for about two years. Months before the end of the war, the Nazi soldiers discovered the Frank family and their friends. The Nazis separated them onto different trains. Anne and her sister Margot had their heads shaved and were made to work very hard in concentration camps. Before they were given their freedom, Anne and Margot Frank got dysentery, which is a disease. The Nazis stopped feeding the girls, and Anne died at the age of fifteen.

   Of the eight people who lived in the apartment, only Otto Frank, Anne's father survived. Years later, someone found Anne's diary and gave it to her father. He had it made into a book that has been translated into many languages. Anne Frank was not only intelligent, but she was very brave. You can read about it in her diary.