Born in Germany on June 12, 1929, Anne moved to Amsterdam, Holland, at the age of four. By the time she turned 10 years old, the Germans invaded the Netherlands and began the process of occupying it.

Anne was popular at school and her father, Otto, owned his own company. On July 6, 1942, the Frank family went into hiding because the German government told Anne's mother she was to be deported to a work camp for Jews and others that the Nazis chose to persecute.

The entire family lived in the back of Otto's company building in a secret annex. (An annex is like a room or hideout.)

For years, Anne had nobody to talk to outside of her family, so she wrote in a diary she'd been given only weeks before they began to hide. Anne planned on being a writer as an adult.

Anne's plans were halted when a person who had been helping the Franks get food got scared and reported them to the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police force.

Anne and her family were forced into concentration camps and were separated. Her mother died while laboring at a work camp. Anne herself soon died of typhus fever at the age of 15.

What a sad story. I just wanted to share it so that you can glimpse the horrible things that happened during the Holocaust.

But, there was hope! Anne's father, Otto, lived through the Holocaust and World War II. He took her diary and published it all around the world; it is now available in 60 different languages, titled The Diary of Anne Frank.

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Editor's Note: To honor this month, you might want to visit the following websites and read:

http://www.yadvashem.org/
http://www.ushmm.org
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm