Alexandra Zapruder - National Geographic Readers: Anne Frank

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Sincerely,

Mariam Jean Dreher
Professor of Reading Education
University of Maryland, College Park

For Hannah and Toby, with all my love

Special thanks to Gracie Corbett for her great enthusiasm and help.
The publisher and author gratefully acknowledge the expert review of this book by
Thomas B. Allen, co-author of the encyclopedia World War II.

Copyright 2013 National Geographic Society
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Alexandra Zapruder was on the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and
is the author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust. She is working on a narrative
history of the Zapruder film, her grandfathers home movie of the Kennedy assassination.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4263-1352-3
Library ISBN: 978-1-4263-1353-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4263-1393-6

Book design by YAY! Design

Photo credits

Cover (portrait and detail of plaid journal): Photo by Anne Frank Fonds/Anne Frank House via Getty Images; header throughout
(journal entry): EPA/Ade Johnson/Newscom; ,
: Photo by Anne Frank Fonds/Anne Frank
House via Getty Images;
(inset): Bernard Judd, courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives; (top
right): Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis; (bottom):
Lambert/Archive Photos/Getty Images; (bottom):
Lawrence Manning/Corbis; : Michael Jenner/Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty Images;
: Brittany
Courville/Shutterstock; : Luca Teuchmann/
WireImage/Getty Images; : Felicitas Garda Collection, courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives;
(center right): Miriam
Korber Bercovici Collection, courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives; (bottom): Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority; (center left): Cilia Jurer Rudashevsky, courtesy of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives; (center
right): Tomasz Pietryszek/E+/Getty Images; (bottom right): Horace Abrahams/Key
stone/Getty Images; (bottom left): David Crausby/Alamy

Can you imagine being punished just
for being who you are? Or because you
look, think, or feel differently from those
around you?

This is what happened to many people
in Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
It started when a group called Nazis
( NOT - sees ) took over the country
of Germany under the leadership of
a man named Adolf Hitler. The Nazis
changed laws to control peoples lives.
They hated many people, but they
treated Jews worst of all. The Nazis told
Jews where they could go and what
they could do. Many Jews no longer felt
safe even in their own homes.

NAZIS: A group of people
who followed the ideas of
a German leader named
Adolf Hitler

JEWS: Those born into
a Jewish family or who
practice the religion of
Judaism

A huge crowd of Nazi soldiers gathers to
hear Adolf Hitler speak in Germany in 1936.

Anne Frank was born into a German
Jewish family. Her family moved from
Germany to Holland to escape the
Nazis. But when she was years old,
the Nazis attacked Holland. She and her
family hid from them for almost two
years. During that time, she kept a diary.
She wrote almost every day about her
life, thoughts, and feelings.

Years later, Anne Franks diary was
published and read by millions.
Even though she was a teenager, her
diary helped many people even
grown- ups understand how she and
others felt during this time.

I hope I will be able to
confide everything to
you, as I have never been
able to confide in anyone,
and I hope you will be a
great source of comfort
and support.

Anne Franks diary has been published
in languages around the world.

Anne, Margot, and their mother in Germany in 1933

Anne Frank was born in Germany in
1929. She lived with her parents, Edith and
Otto Frank, and her older sister, Margot.
Annes relatives had lived in Germany for a
long time. For her family, being Jewish was
important, and so was being German.

When Anne was three, Adolf Hitler took