Today June 12, is Anne Frank’s 85th birthday. In light of the 70th anniversary of D-Day and Hitler’s grip on Europe and the Jewish population at the time, I set out on a mission to find rarely seen images, videos, diary entries, timeline etc., of this young girl’s life. I’ve included a link to the 3D version of the secret annex, created by The Anne Frank House where Anne’s family–and others–hid from the Nazi’s for two years. This is perfect for those of us who haven’t made the trip to Amsterdam yet. Enjoy!
You will find the aforementioned below.
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk], German pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], 
pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 – early March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By May 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in some concealed rooms in the building where Anne’s father worked. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot Frank, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died of typhus in March 1945.
Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne’s diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It has since been translated into many languages. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The blank diary, which was given to Anne on her thirteenth birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
via wikipedia.com
YouTube: July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor. The Anne Frank House can offer you this film footage thanks to the cooperation of the couple. (There’s no sound).
Click below to launch the timeline. It begins on June 13, 1929 when Anne was a day old. ( Het Achterhuis (1947), cover of the first edition of Anne Frank’s diary. Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Click image to launch the 3D online tour of the secret annex.
10 June 2014 I keep finding things and adding them. 😀 I started this blog on 4th. Enjoy this video I found on YouTube, it’s a long one so I bookmarked it, too.
Maiden on the Midway 
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