Anne Frank

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They were discovered by the Gestapo, the German secret state police (History 2). The friends that helped them, including Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl, was arrested, but seen was released. Anne and her sister Margot was supposed to be sent to Auschwitz for immediate death in the gas chambers, but instead they was sent to a concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany (History 2). In March 1945, after nine months after their arrest, they died of typhoid fever. A few months before, January 1945, their mother died of starvation at Auschwitz. Hermann van Pels died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz soon after his arrival there in 1944; his wife is believed to have likely died at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic in the spring of 1945 (History 2). Their son Peter died in Austria in May 1945 at concentration camp called Mauthausen (History 2). Fritz Pfeffer died from illness in late December 1944 at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany (History 2). Otto was the only one to live; he was liberated from Auschwitz on January 27,1945 (History 2)

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Soon after Anne’s dad returned to Amsterdam after getting released, Miep gave him his daughter’s diary. He knew Anne wanted to become an author and hope her wartime writings would one day be published (History 2). When her dad published her diary, it was called "The Secret Annex" in the Netherlands in 1947. Finally in 1952, it was published in America as "The Diary of a Young Girl." It has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the work (Davies 165). The life of Anne Frank involved in hiding from the Nazis, writing in her diary about war, and getting sent to concentration camps and getting separated from her family.