Palisadians Rio and Lilah Robinson write about their experience.
Anne Frank is a girl who started writing a diary at 13 years old. She dreamed of becoming a famous writer, but she didn’t know it. She lived in a time when Hitler, a German soldier, made an army. He killed anybody that was different than he was. So she and her family went into hiding.
Four people helped hide them. But one of them told the Nazis where they were hiding. The Nazis barged into their house one day and took Anne and her family to concentration camps, where they were killed.
Anne died at 16 years old. The only person in her family who survived was her father, Otto Frank, who eventually found Anne’s diary. First, he read it. Then he published it. Now Anne’s story is known worldwide.
—Rio Robinson, Age 11
When I was in Amsterdam I went to the Anne Frank Museum. This whole museum was based on one girl and her name was Anne Frank.
Anne Frank became a famous writer by writing a diary when World War II was going. Anne Frank had to hide in the basement of a tiny house without seeing any daylight for three years. Can you believe that!
Anyway, there were a couple of people who helped the Frank family hide. They lived on the bottom of the house. But finally at the end of the third year someone turned in the Frank family to the Germans and they all sadly got killed. Except for Anne Frank’s dad – he lived.
—Lilah Robinson, Age 9
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