Anna Leigh - Anne Frank: Out of the Shadows

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Anna Leigh

Lerner Publications Minneapolis

anne f r a nk

Out of the Shadows

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Leigh, Anna, author.

Title: Anne Frank : out of the shadows / Anna Leigh.

Description: Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, [2019] | Series: Gateway biographies | Ages 914 ; Grades | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018060927 (print) | LCCN 2019000305 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541556805 (eb pdf) | ISBN 9781541539174 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781541574304 (pb : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Frank, Anne, 19291945Juvenile literature. | Jewish children in the HolocaustNetherlandsAmsterdamBiographyJuvenile literature. | Holocaust, Jewish (19391945)NetherlandsAmsterdamJuvenile literature. | Amsterdam (Netherlands) BiographyJuvenile literature.

Classification: LCC DS135.N6 (ebook) | LCC DS135.N6 F73397 2019 (print) | DDC 940.53/18092 [B] dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060927

Manufactured in the United States of America

1-45100-35927-4/2/2019

Contents

Anne in 1938, when she was eight years old

A t three in the afternoon on July 5, 1942, a doorbell rang at Merwedeplein, an apartment building in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank was upstairs on the balcony, reading in the sunshine. She didnt hear the doorbell, but her mother and older sister, Margot, did.

At the door was a postal worker with a letter for Margot, who was sixteen years old. The letter was an official document from the German military calling her to report to a train station. From there, a train would take her to Germany. Though it was summer, the letter told her to pack a suitcase with winter clothes.

Annes family was Jewish, and they lived in an area of Amsterdam where many other Jewish families lived. Two years earlier, the German army had invaded the Netherlands and enacted laws to restrict and hurt Jewish families. Anne and Margot had to leave their public school to attend an all-Jewish school. They could no

longer visit public movie theaters or swimming pools. They couldnt ride streetcars or own bicycles. They had to wear a yellow star on their clothing that identified them as Jews.

Anne and Margot knew what the letter meant. The German military had begun removing Jews from their homes, taking their belongings, and banning them from their jobs. Many were sent to camps known as labor camps or concentration camps. At these camps, some Jews were forced to do hard labor for the Germans. Others were killed immediately. No one in Amsterdam knew exactly what the camps were, but they had heard rumors that the conditions were terrible. They feared the letters demanding they report to the camps.

A few days before Margot received the letter, Margot and Annes father had told Anne that the family planned to go into hiding. They would hide so the Germans could not send them to the camps. When Margot received the letter, Anne knew that it was time for the family to put the plan into action. Anne and Margot began

Nazis forced Jewish people to wear badges like this one.

packing their most valued belongings. Anne put books, a comb, old letters, and her brand-new diary into a bag.

Later that night, some family friends came to the Frank apartment. They hid bundles of clothing and shoes under baggy rain jackets and brought the bundles somewhere secret. The next morning, it was pouring rain. This was goodit meant there wouldnt be too many soldiers around. Annes mother woke her at five thirty in the morning. Anne dressed in several layers of clothing. Margot got on a bicycle and rode away first. At seven thirty, Anne and her parents also left their home. Her parents left a note with an address on a desk. If anyone read it, they would think the family had fled to Switzerland. Anne said only one goodbye: to her cat, Moortje. She had no idea where they were going.