Anne Frank Paula Carrillo and Miguel Benito Hello, I am Annelies Marie Frank, better known as Anne Frank, and I am about to tell you the story of my life. I was born on June 12th 1929 in a Jewish family in Frankfurt. I was German, Dutch and I hadn't had a nationality since 1941. When I moved to Amsterdam, I did not know how to speak Dutch, so I attended public school in a Montessori school. I always wanted to be a writer, but my short life did not let me achieve it. Nevertheless, during the 2 years that I was hidden from the Nazis, I wrote a diary that I received as a birthday present, so my dream came true in a certain way. Me and my family were arrested by the Gestapo in August 1944. Later, my whole family was transported to concentration camps. In October or November 1944, me and my sister, Margot, were transferred from Auschwitz to BergenBelsen concentration camp. I died in February or March 1945, aged 15 in BergenBelsen due to the typhus epidemic. My life was marked by the Interwar Period and the Second World War. During this time, Germany had a terrible crisis and became a dictatorship with Adolf Hitler as leader. When he invaded Poland, World War II broke out and Jews and other people, considered undesirable, were imprisoned and murdered in Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps. In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the
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