Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl whose diary was destined to become one of the most cherished and read books in history, was born in Frankfurt , Germany on June 12, 1929 .
Shortly thereafter, Hitler came to power and the persecution of the Jewish people in Germany began. Because of this, the Frank family moved to Holland where they believed they would be safe.
In 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland . At first, Anne's life remained relatively unchanged. The next year, however, the Nazis began deporting Jews and Anne's father, along with some of his former coworkers, began preparing a secret hiding place for Anne's family.
On July 5, 1942 , Anne's sister received her deportation orders. The next day (just three and half weeks after Anne began her diary which had been a gift for her thirteenth birthday), Anne's family went into hiding. Joining them were a family of three and a dentist whose Gentile wife did not have to go into hiding. Her diary, which spans the next two years, relates her struggles with the problems and joys of adolescence which she endured under the most bizarre of circumstances and in the midst of the horrors going on in the outside world.
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