Anne Frank

Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank (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 the beginning of 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.

Anne Frank in "The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging"
Anne Frank is an elderly woman who lives in an Hebrew Home for the Aging. She is a Holocaust survivor and is interviewed by an eight-graders a Catholic school. Frank tells her experiences during the war and after.

Frank, her family, the van Pels and an dentist were hidden from the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands for the duration of the war. Their place of refuge, the Secret Annexe, was in a nondescript office building. In hiding, Anne is disgusted by her family and fellow fugitives' foibles and is mutually loathed for her "arrogance". She is also angered when her sister starts flirting with her crush. Being a self-proclaimed author, she writes a diary detailing her experiences.

Spending years in the Annexe leaves the group pale and starving, the latter being shared by most of the Dutch population. After the war, Anne and her family, by mutual consent, move far away from each other. She moves to the America and marries an military officer. Giving in to her artistic impulses, she writes minor commercial jingles and movie scripts in her husband's name.