miércoles, 14 de abril de 2010

ANNE FRANK'S FAMILY


This photo shows Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Anne Frank and Edith Frank-Holländer on the Merwedeplein square in Amsterdam. It is the only photo which shows the whole family together. It was taken in 1941. Anne is then 12 years old.
The Frank family are actually from Germany. Anne and her sister Margot were born in Frankfurt am Main, a big city in the south of Germany. Their father grew up there. His family had lived there for a long time. Their mother comes from Aachen, a German town near the Dutch border. When Edith Holländer marries Otto Frank in 1925 she moves to Frankfurt.

To the Netherlands
Margot is born in 1926, and Anne follows three years later. Anne and Margot live in Frankfurt until the summer of 1933. Then her parents decide to move to the Netherlands. It is becoming too dangerous in Germany. Otto Frank starts up a business in Amsterdam. The Frank family feel safe. But on 10 May 1940 the German army attacks the Netherlands

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