Adolph Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. He served in the same army as Anne Frank’s father. He was appointed Chancellor of Germany. He banned all of the political parties except for the Nazi party. He became in control of the Nazi party. He wanted to control the world and make the "master race", and implemented the T-4 program, which killed all the handicaps. Hitler died from suicide.

"Kitty" was the name Anne gave to her diary. Her father gave her the diary as her thirteenth birthday present, on June 12, 1942. She wrote in "Kitty" during the two years of hiding. She described daily life in the Annex. She even criticized herself in her diary. She rewrote many pages of her diary with the intention of making publishing it after the war ended. Since she never made it, her father published it for her, even though she never finished rewriting it.

Margot Betty Frank was born on February 16, 1926, in Frankfurt am Maim, Germany. She was not as well known as Anne, but her manners were better. She was quiet and polite. She was taken to Auschwitz and was later evacuated in October 1944. She ended up in Bergen-Belsen. While over there, she developed typhus and died soon after. She was eighteen years-old when she passed away.

The Nazi party suspended the freedom of speech from their people. They also declared a boycott of Jewish businesses, medical and legal practices. The Franks moved to the Netherlands because of the tension intensifying in Germany. The Nazi party also passed laws stating that Jewish people were non-citizens and mixed Aryan and Jewish marriage was illegal. The Germans finally surrendered to the war in May 1947.

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Otto Frank was born on May 12, 1889 and grew up in Frankfurt. Before the Holocaust, he had very little interest in his Jewish background. He served in the Germany Army during the Great War. He was really close to Anne and loved her very much. He was the only surviving member of the Frank family. He died in 1980, at the age of ninety-two.

Peter van Pels was born on November 8, 1926. He was attracted to Anne, but their parents did not approve of them having a relationship. Peter was forced to take part in the "death march" on January 16, 1945. He died in Mauthoausen, at the age of nineteen, on May 5, 1945.

The "Secret Annex" is where the Franks and four others, the van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer. The Annex was Mr. Franks, office building. Mr. Pfeffer was a dentist and Mr. van Pels was Mr. Frank’s business partner. The Franks went into hiding on July 6, 1942. Only a bookcase separated the Annex from the rest of the world. The Nazi’s raided the Annex on August 4, 1944, and that was the end of hiding.

The van Pels were the other family hiding out with Anne’s family. The members of the family were Hermann, Auguste, and their son, Peter. Hermann van Pels worked at the same office as Otto Frank. He died in Auschwitz in 1944, and his wife, Auguste, died in 1945. Peter died from a death march in 1945.