Anne Frank is one of the millions of Jewish who suffered in the Holocaust. She was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Germany. She lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-semitic Nuremberg Laws. She is known for her diary. In her diary there are her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. On the morning of August 4th 1944, the Achterhuis was stormed by German police. The family was transported to the Westerbork transit camp, after that, they were considered criminals and were sent to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor. Anne died in March 1945, when a typhus epidemic spread through the camp, killing 17000 prisoners.
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