Anne Frank In The Attic Book
In 1933 anne s family her father otto.
Anne frank in the attic book. Arnold newman fighting for reconciliation and human rights. Look around the attic where the people in hiding stored their food and hung their laundry. Based on letters and documents in her father s mother s attic this book fills in the story of the family from the 1800 s through anne s family s exile to the secret annex. I read how because she was jewish she was forced to go into hiding in 1942.
On july 5 1942. Otto frank in the attic of the secret annex a few hours before the official opening of the anne frank house on 3 may 1960. She lived in amsterdam netherlands during the nazi occupation. And her older sister margot moved to amsterdam from germany following the rise of adolf hitler in 1940 the netherlands was invaded by germany which began to enact various anti jewish measures one of which required anne and her sister to enroll in an all jewish school the following year.
Thirteen year old anne frank had been writing in her red and white checkered diary for less than a month when her sister margot received a call up notice around 3 p m. Her extended family did not know where or how otto frank s family spent the war until afterward.