Born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 due to rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Anne's father was a businessman and her mother a housewife. She had an older sister, Margot. In 1940, the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, and the Franks were forced into hiding in a secret annex above Otto Frank's office building in Amsterdam. This is where Anne began writing her diary on June 14, 1942. Anne's father was arrested by the Nazis in August 1944, and she and her family were discovered and deported to concentration camps. Anne died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp in February 1945, at the age of 15. Otto Frank survived the camps and returned to Amsterdam, where he established the Anne Frank House museum in 1960. He spent the rest of his life promoting Anne's diary and advocating for peace and human rights.
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