![Anne Frank at five years of age. Bad Aachen, Germany, September 11, 1934. [LCID: 61729]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/89356097-34b3-47a8-93d0-e9f86f59affe.jpg "Anne Frank at five years of age. Bad Aachen, Germany, September 11, 1934. [LCID: 61729]")
Anne Frank at five years of age. Bad Aachen, Germany, September 11, 1934.
Item View![Margot and Anne Frank before their family fled to the Netherlands. [LCID: 61759]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/870411f4-cf56-45c2-823d-8efc041325f9.jpg "Margot and Anne Frank before their family fled to the Netherlands. [LCID: 61759]")
Margot and Anne Frank before their family fled to the Netherlands. Bad Aachen, Germany, October 1933.
Item View![Anne Frank at 11 years of age, two years before going into hiding. [LCID: 49361]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/f604ecda-e41e-4f1f-8a10-19cd31e20ccd.jpg "Anne Frank at 11 years of age, two years before going into hiding. [LCID: 49361]")
Anne Frank at 11 years of age, two years before going into hiding. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1940.
Item View![Anne Frank, age twelve, at her school desk. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941. [LCID: 61768]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/40c0abe5-2d26-4b56-a4b5-a2ca71abb200.jpg "Anne Frank, age twelve, at her school desk. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941. [LCID: 61768]")
Anne Frank, age twelve, at her school desk. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1941.
Item View![Excerpt from Anne Frank's diary, October 10, 1942: "This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. [LCID: 78355]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/433b531d-96e5-42bf-b241-cbde2ea0e8a6.jpg "Excerpt from Anne Frank's diary, October 10, 1942: \"This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. [LCID: 78355]")
Excerpt from Anne Frank's diary for the date October 10, 1942: "This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might still have a chance of getting to Hollywood. But now I am afraid I usually look quite different." Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Item View![A page from Anne Frank's photo album showing snapshots taken between 1935 and 1942. [LCID: 61744]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b4fdc8a3-8646-457e-bc00-daba5b2daf4b.jpg "A page from Anne Frank's photo album showing snapshots taken between 1935 and 1942. [LCID: 61744]")
A page from Anne Frank's photo album showing snapshots taken between 1935 and 1942. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Item View![Anne Frank: Amsterdam and deportation [LCID: ams78050]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d5cd3041-e749-4ee8-9cbc-9c2784f311f8.gif "Anne Frank: Amsterdam and deportation [LCID: ams78050]")
After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, Otto Frank (Anne Frank’s father) left Frankfurt, Germany, for Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The rest of the Frank family soon followed. Anne was the last family member to arrive in Amsterdam in February 1934. In July 1942, German authorities began systematically deporting Jews from throughout the Netherlands to concentration camps and killing centers in the east. That same month, the Frank family went into hiding. They remained in hiding for the next two years. The German SS and police discovered the Frank family in 1944 and deported them to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Later that year, Anne and her sister Margot were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne and Margot died in Bergen-Belsen in February or March 1945.
Item View![The house at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne Frank and her family were hidden. [LCID: 77950]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/96a2dd4b-452a-4e6c-a6c9-5ec5e5adb530.jpg "The house at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne Frank and her family were hidden. [LCID: 77950]")
The house at Prinsengracht 263, where Anne Frank and her family were hidden. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After 1935.
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