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From the Diary of Anne Frank. Done by:- N.Surya teja and Jonathan. Submitted to:- Sailaja Teacher..

Frank was born Annelies or Anneliese Marie Frank on 12 June 1929 at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, to Edith (née Holländer) and Otto Heinrich Frank. She had an older sister, Margot. The Franks were Reform Jews, and so did not practice all the customs and traditions of Judaism. They lived in an assimilated community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of various religions. Edith and Otto were devoted parents with interest in scholarly pursuits. They had an extensive library and both parents encouraged the children to read. At the time of Anne's birth, the family lived in a house at Marbachweg 307 in Frankfurt-Eckenheim (today Frankfurt-Dornbusch), where they rented two floors. In 1931, the family moved to a house at Ganghoferstraße 24 in a fashionable liberal area of Frankfurt-Ginnheim called the Dichterviertel ("Poets' Quarter") that is now also part of Dornbusch. Both houses still exist..

In 1933, after Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won the federal election and Hitler was appointed chancellor of the Reich, Edith Frank and the children went to stay with her mother Rosa Hollander (née Stern) in Aachen. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt, but after receiving an offer to start a company in Amsterdam, he moved there to organize the business and arrange accommodation for his family. He began working at the Opekta Works, a company that sold pectin, a fruit extract. Edith travelled back and forth between Aachen and Amsterdam and found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in the Rivierenbuurt neighbourhood of Amsterdam, where many Jewish-German refugees settled. In November 1933, Edith followed her husband and a month later Margot also moved to Amsterdam. Anne stayed with her grandmother until February, when the entire family reunited in Amsterdam. The Franks were among 300,000 Jews who fled Germany between 1933 and 1939..

After moving to Amsterdam, Anne and Margot were enrolled in school. Margot went to public school where, despite initial problems with the Dutch language, she became a star pupil. Anne joined the 6th Montessori School in 1934 and soon felt at home there, meeting children of her own age, like Hanneli Goslar, who would later become one of her best friends. Twenty-three years later, the school was posthumously renamed after her as the Anne Frank School in 1957. In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company, Pectacon, a wholesaler of herbs, pickling salts and mixed spices, used in the production of sausages. Hermann van Pels was employed by Pectacon as an advisor about spices. A Jewish butcher, he had fled Osnabrück with his family. In 1939, Edith Frank's mother Rosa came to live with the Franks and remained with them until her death in January 1942..

In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws. Mandatory registration and segregation soon followed. Otto Frank tried to arrange for the family to emigrate to the United States—the only destination that seemed to him to be viable—but his visa application was never processed because the US consulate in Rotterdam was destroyed by German bombing on 14 May 1940, resulting in the loss of all the paperwork there. After the summer holidays in 1941, Anne learned that she would no longer be allowed to go to the Montessori School, as Jewish children had to attend Jewish schools. From then on, Anne, like her sister Margot, went to the Jewish Lyceum [nl] (Joods Lyceum), an exclusive Jewish secondary school in Amsterdam that opened in September that same year..