Anne Frank was born on the 12th June 1929 into a Jewish family in Germany, in the town of Frankfurt an Main however when Anne was 4 years old the Frank family emigrated to Holland where they would be safe from Hitler who was der fuehrer (-the leader) and likely to put them into concentration camps or maybe kill them because they were Jewish.
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Hitler believed, that any other races that were not his own, were lesser. Especially Jews, Gypsies, Russians and Poles. Catholic priests, Jehovah's Witnesses and other Slavic people where also considered "racially impure". But for Jews he had a special plan: all were to be destroyed. He would make the world, starting with Europe, a place with out Jews. In 1933, Hitler became in charge, he put all his beliefs into practise. His troops marched across Europe, plunging the world into war. In 1933 Hitler ordered his followers to stay away from Jewish shops, and to sack any Jews from important jobs. Then in 1935 it just got worse, Jews were not permitted into swimming pools, restaurants, parks and public buildings, over the next 10 years things continued getting worse. The twelve years in which Hitler was in power were a nightmare in history not only for the Jews and those who Hitler persecuted but also for the whole of the world.
Anne's father was called Otto and her mother was called Edith, she had a sister called Margot who was 3 years older than herself. In Anne's diary she explains more about her family "my father was 36 when he married my mother, who was then 25. My sister Margot was born in 1926 in Frankfurt-on-Main. I followed on the 12th June 1929," .
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In 1940 Hitler invaded Holland where the Frank's were staying and the anti-Jewish law were enforced there. So Anne could no longer visit Christians, go swimming or visit any sports grounds. The Jews were banned from trams and weren't aloud to drive cars, they could only shop between 3 o"clock and 5, she had to be in her house by 8.