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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30The good news is that you don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what
00:35you can accomplish, and what your potential is.
00:39Anne Frank Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
00:48Her parents decided to move to the Netherlands when Hitler came to power in 1933.
00:53In 1934, they moved to the city of Amsterdam.
00:58Her father, Otto Frank, started a small business, and Anne and her older sister, Margo, quickly
01:04adjusted to their new country.
01:07Anne was an outgoing and spirited child.
01:10She was like her father, who liked to tell the girls stories and play games with them.
01:14Growing up, Anne had lots of friends.
01:17Her family was Jewish and followed some of the Jewish holidays and customs.
01:22Anne liked to read and dreamed of being a writer someday.
01:25Anne and her family lived in safety until 1940, when the Germans invaded and occupied the
01:32Netherlands.
01:33But soon, Anne and her sister were forced to go to a special Jewish school, and her father
01:38had to give up his ownership of his business.
01:42It is hard to say about the way to success of a girl who was a victim of the Nazi regime.
01:48Anne's story is not a story of success.
01:52It is the story of a girl who just wanted to live.
01:55From a young age, Anne showed an aptitude for reading and writing, while her outspoken and
02:00energetic personality shone through.
02:03When Holland was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, their heritage put the family under threat.
02:10Their hiding place, the annex, was in a specially prepared space above the offices of their business.
02:16After Anne went into hiding, things did not look so good.
02:20For a girl who liked to talk, keeping quiet so that the workers below you could not hear
02:24them was not exactly thrilling.
02:26Anne died when she was only 16.
02:29Her family was her parents, Otto and Edith Frank, and her sister Margo.
02:34Anne's only love was love of her family, and love of life as well.
02:39Anne Frank, like many other Jewish children, was deprived of the right to become an adult,
02:45to meet her love, to build a family, to have children, to enjoy the way they grow up.
02:51Their lives were taken away.
02:53Their future was stolen.
02:55Anne's tragedy is the tragedy of the whole generation.
02:59Anne had her thirteenth birthday.
03:02One of her presents was an autograph book bound with white and red checked cloth, enclosed with
03:07a small lock.
03:08She proceeded to use this as her diary, with the first entries detailing how her family
03:14were segregated and discriminated against.
03:16It is from this journal that we know about Anne's story today.
03:21Anne started each diary entry, Dear Kitty, and what followed was an incredibly candid and
03:27eloquent account of her life in confinement.
03:29It expresses her fear, boredom, and confusion at the situation she found herself in.
03:35Anne hoped for her diary to be published as a novel after the war.
03:39That's why she started rewriting it.
03:41But Anne never managed to finish it.
03:43She was discovered and arrested before she completed her work.
03:47Her diary ends in 1944, when the annex was raided by the Nazi authorities.
03:53Anne and Margot were first sent to Auschwitz, and then to Bergen-Belsen, where they died
03:58of typhoid in 1945.
04:00Anne Frank did not become famous until after her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration
04:04camp, and after the liberation of all concentration camps, Otto Frank, the only surviving member
04:10of the people hiding in the secret annex, later had her diary published.
04:15Anne Frank's diary was published in many languages, and is used in thousands of middle
04:19school and high school curricula in Europe and the Americas.
04:22Anne Frank has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust.
04:28Through her diary, The Diary of Anne Frank, people all over the world are able to see
04:32what life as a persecuted Jew was like during World War II, thus gaining an appreciation
04:38for the sacrifices people made in the struggle to stay alive.
04:56Women Who Changed the World
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