Voskuijl has been told that the seven of us are in hiding, and he's been most helpful. In her diary, Anne described the Secret Annex, saying it had several small rooms and narrow halls.
Peter had his own small room, and Hermann and Auguste van Pels slept in the communal living room and kitchen area. There was also a bathroom, a small attic and a front office. The front office and attic had windows that Anne peered from during the evenings. From the attic, she could see a chestnut tree, which inspired her to reflect on nature in her diary. The residents of the Secret Annex did a great deal of reading and studying to pass the time, including learning English and taking correspondence courses under the helpers' names, according to the Anne Frank House.
The residents followed a strict schedule that required them to be silent at certain times so the workers in the office wouldn't hear them. During the day, they flushed the toilet as little as possible, worried that the workers would hear. One of Anne's primary pastimes was writing in her diary. She also composed short stories and a book of her favorite quotes. Anne wanted to be a professional journalist when she grew up.
She kept several notebooks when in hiding. While her first and most famous was the red-checked notebook, when that ran out of space, she moved on to others, according to the Anne Frank House. Anne made detailed entries throughout her time in the Secret Annex. She wrote, "The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings. Otherwise, I'd absolutely suffocate. Many of Anne's entries were addressed to "Kitty. Anne was fond of the character, who was cheerful, funny and shrewd, said Bekker.
While Anne did describe life in the Secret Annex, she also wrote extensively about her thoughts, feelings, relationships and personal experiences that had nothing to do with the Holocaust or the Franks' situation. We know from her diary that Anne sometimes disagreed with Margot, felt her mother didn't understand her and had a crush on Peter. Sharing a room with Fritz Pfeffer, a middle-age man, was awkward for both Anne and Fritz, and Anne sometimes wrote about her struggles.
It is in the forefront of her mind, and it makes a statement that no matter what is going on, these are things that are important. On March 28, , the residents of the Secret Annex heard a special news report on the radio.
Dutch Cabinet Minister Gerrit Bolkestein announced that diaries and other documents would be collected when the war ended in order to preserve an account of what happened for future generations. Anne decided that she would submit her diary, and began revising it for future readers, Klebe said.
She conceived of it has a novel about the Secret Annex. Anne's diary reveals an insightful, confident and direct young woman. Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners.
However, it evolved into a network of camps where Facing economic, social, and political oppression, thousands of German Jews wanted to flee the Third Reich but found few countries willing to accept them. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Who Was Anne Frank? Anne Frank's Death On August 4, , after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the Secret Annex were discovered by the Gestapo , the German secret state police, who had learned about the hiding place from an anonymous tipster who has never been definitively identified.
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They remained in hiding for the next two years. Later that year, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of all donors. The hiding place was cramped. Anne had to keep very quiet and was often afraid. On her thirteenth birthday, just before they went into hiding, Anne was presented with a diary. During the two years in hiding, Anne wrote about events in the Secret Annex, but also about her feelings and thoughts.
In addition, she wrote short stories, started on a novel and copied passages from the books she read in her Book of Beautiful Sentences. Writing helped her pass the time. When the Minister of Education of the Dutch government in England made an appeal on Radio Orange to hold on to war diaries and documents, Anne was inspired to rewrite her individual diaries into one running story, titled Het Achterhuis The Secret Annex. Anne started rewriting her diary, but before she was done, she and the other people in hiding were discovered and arrested by police officers on 4 August The police also arrested two of the helpers.
To this day, we do not know the reason for the police raid. Via the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst the German security police , a prison in Amsterdam, and the Westerbork transit camp, the people from the Secret Annex were put on transport to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
The train journey took three days, during which Anne and over a thousand others were packed closely together in cattle wagons. There was little food and water and only a barrel for a toilet. Upon arrival at Auschwitz, Nazi doctors checked to see who would and who would not be able to do heavy forced labour.
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