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Stone 49

ANNE FRANK
(1929-1945)

 BORN TO A GERMAN-JEWISH FAMILY, ANNE FRANK MOVED WITH HER
PARENTS TO AMSTERDAM SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER CAME TO POWER. 

WHEN HER OLDER SISTER, MARGOT, WAS SUMMONED TO REGISTER FOR
FORCED GERMAN LABOR, THE FAMILY TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN A SECRET
ANNEX TO OTTO FRANK’S OFFICE FOR TWO YEARS. AIDED BY A FEW
OF MR. FRANK’S GENTILE WORKERS, THE FAMILY AND FOUR OTHERS LIVED
IN THE CRAMPED ROOMS UNTIL THEY WERE DENOUNCED AND ARRESTED. 

THE FRANKS WERE SENT TO AUSCHWITZ ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1944. MOTHER
EDITH PERISHED IN BIRKENAU. MARGOT AND ANNE DIED OF TYPHUS AT
BERGEN-BELSEN IN MARCH 1945. OTTO FRANK WAS THE LONE SURVIVOR. 

ANNE’S WARTIME DIARY SALVAGED BY HER FATHER’S BUSINESS
ASSOCIATE MIEP GIES HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MORE THAN FIFTY
LANGUAGES WITH NEARLY 20 MILLION COPIES PUBLISHED TO DATE.
THE CONTINUED INTEREST IN THIS BRAVE, SENSITIVE YOUNG WOMAN
IS A TRIBUTE TO HER IRREPRESSIBLE SPIRIT IN THE FACE OF THE
HOLOCAUST.