Anne frank and her life Characters in Anne Frank. - Family of Anne Frank. -Members in Secret Annexe. -Other Important Characters. An Overview. Secret Annexe. Important Timeline.

2. ContentCharacters in Anne Frank.
- Family of Anne Frank.
-Members in Secret Annexe.
-Other Important Characters.
An Overview.
Secret Annexe.
Important Timeline.

10. Otto Frank
• Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-
born businessman and the father of Anne
Frank and Margot Frank.
• Born: May 12, 1889, Frankfurt, Germany
• Died: August 19, 1980, Birsfelden,
Switzerland
• He was the only surviving member of his
family. He arranged for the publication of
Anne's Diary and seen it translated in to
several languages. He also saw it
transformed to the screen before his passing
in 1980 of lung cancer.

11. Edith Frank
• Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust
diarist Anne Frank. She died from
starvation at the age of forty-four.
• Born: January 16, 1900, Aachen,
Germany
• Died: January 6, 1945, Auschwitz
concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland
• Anne shares a rather loving relationship
with her father and a very turbulent one
with her mother.

12. Margot Frank
• Margot Betti Frank was the elder
daughter of Otto and Edith Frank,
and the older sister of Anne Frank.
• Born: February 16,
1926, Frankfurt, Germany
• Died: March 9, 1945, Bergen-
Belsen concentration camp, Lohheide,
Germany.
• Anne share a turbulent relation
with her sister too.

14. Members in Secret Annexe

15. The Van Dan’s Family
Hermann van Pels

16. The Van Dan’s Family
Auguste van Pels

17. The Van Dan’s Family
Peter van Pels

18. Hermann van Pels Hermann van Pels was born on 31 March 1898 in Gehrde, Germany.
 Hermann van Pels begins working with Otto Frank in 1938
 He later injured his thumb on a work detail, and requested to be sent to
the sick barracks. Soon after that, during a sweep of the sick barracks
for selection, he was sent to the gas chambers. This occurred about
three weeks after his arrival at Auschwitz, and his selection was
witnessed by both his son Peter and by Otto Frank..
 In mid-October 1944, Hermann van Pels was gassed in the gas
chambers at Auschwitz, and his remains cremated and scattered.

19. Auguste van Pels Auguste is born on 29 September 1900 in Buer near
Osnabrück, Germany. Miep Gies describes Auguste as
stylish and coquettish.
 Mrs Van Pels is the cook of the house.
 Born On: September 29, 1900 in Buer near Osnabrück
(Germany).
 Died: April/May 1945Auguste van Pels .

20.  Peter is born on 8 November 1926 in Osnabrück, near the
Dutch border. He has no brothers or sisters.
 On 11 April 1945, Peter was sent to the sick barracks.
 Otto Frank had protected him during their period of
imprisonment together, as the two men had been assigned to
the same work group.
 Anne falls in love with Peter, and he probably falls in love
with her in return.
Peter van Pels

21. FRITZ PFEFFER
(ALBERT DUSSEL)

22. Albert Dussel
Born: April 30, 1889, Giessen, Germany
Died: December 20, 1944, Hamburg, Germany
 His cause of death was listed in the camp records as "enter
colitis", a catch-all term that covered, among other
things, dysentery and cholera, both of which were common
causes of death in the camps.
Mr. Dussel shares Anne’s room. He enters the Secret
Annexe last. He was a dentist before going into hiding.

23. Victor Kugler
(Mr. Kraler)
Johannes Kleiman (Mr.
Koophuis)
Hermine
Santruschitz ( Miep Gies)
Otto Frank Elisabeth "Bep"
Voskuijl (Elli)

24. Johannes Kleiman (Mr.
Koophuis)
 A Dutch Business
associate of Mr.
Frank and Mr. Van
Daan.
 He also takes over
the running of the
business and helps to
conceal the group in
hiding and obtains

25. Victor Kugler (Mr.
Kraler)
 A Dutch businessman
who has been an
associate of Mr.
Frank and Mr. Vann
Daan.
 Takes over the
running of the
business once the
Jewish group into the

26. Hermine Santruschitz ( Miep
Gies)
 A young woman who
works in the office
below the “Secret
Annexe”.
 She helps with
obtaining food and
supplies for the
group in hiding and

27. Elisabeth "Bep"
Voskuijl (Elli)
 A young Typist who
also works in office
below the “Secret
Annexe”.
 She also helps obtain
food and supplies for
the group in hiding and
comforts them
psychologically.
 Anne has a very

29. A young Jewish girl named Anne Frank (1929-
1945), her parents and older sister moved to
the Netherlands from Germany after Adolf
Hilter and the Nazis came to power there in
1933 and made life increasingly difficult for
Jews.
In 1942, Frank and her family went into hiding
in a secret apartment behind her father’s
business in German-occupied Amsterdam.
A week after they had gone into hiding, the
Franks were joined by Otto’s business associate

30. In November 1942, the Franks and Van Pels
were joined by Fritz Pfeffer (1889-1944),’
Jewish dentist.
The Franks and the other members were
discovered On August 4, 1944, after 25
months in hiding, and sent to concentration
camps; only Anne’s father survived.
Anne Frank’s diary of her family’s time in
hiding, first published in 1947, has been

32. Anne's father Office. Inside is the secret
annex.

33. The office from the front ...

34. Here is the back of the Secret Annex ...

35. Inside the Secret Annex ...

36. The bookcase, which served as a secret
passage to the Annex.

37. The Otto Frank office ...

38. Here, in this room, slept Otto (father),
Edith (mother) and Margot (sister) Frank.

39. Room Anne Frank

40. Room of Peter Van Daan

41. Front office. Here worked some of the Frank family
helpers. They brought them food and some goods.

42. Room of Mr. and Mrs.. Van Daan.

43. Office of Victor Kugler

45. June 12, 1929:
Anneliese Marie, or Anne, is born in
Frankfurt, Germany.
Summer 1933:
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. The first
anti-Jewish laws are established. The Franks decide that
the family must move to the Netherlands.
May 10, 1940:
The German army invades the Netherlands.
June 12, 1942:
Anne receives a diary for her 13th birthday.
July 5, 1942:
Anne's older sister, Margot, receives a call-up
notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor camp.
The family goes into hiding the next day.

46.  July 13, 1942:
The van Pels, another Jewish family originally
from Germany, join the Franks in hiding.
 November 16, 1942:
Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth and final resident of
the Secret Annex, joins the Frank and van Pels families.
 August 4, 1944:
The residents of the Secret Annex are
betrayed and arrested. They are taken to a police
station in Amsterdam and eventually to Westerbork
transit camp.
 September 3, 1944:
The eight prisoners are transported in a sealed
cattle car to Auschwitz on the last transport ever to
leave Westerbork. At Auschwitz, the men are separated
from the women.

47.  October 1944:
Anne, Margot, and Mrs. van Pels are transported to
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Edith Frank
remains in the women's subcamp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
 January 6, 1945:
Edith Frank dies at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
 January 27, 1945:
Otto Frank is liberated from Auschwitz by the
Russian army. He is taken first to Odessa and then to
France before he is allowed to make his way back to
Amsterdam.
 March 1945:
Anne and Margot Frank die at the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp within days of each other.

48. • June 3, 1945:
Otto Frank arrives in Amsterdam, where he is reunited
with Miep and Jan Gies. He knows his wife has died, but
he does not know that his daughters have died too. He
still has hope.
• October 24, 1945:
Otto Frank receives a letter informing him that his
daughters died at Bergen-Belsen. Miep gives Anne's
diary to Otto. She found and hid the diary after the
Franks' arrest and had been hoping to return it to Anne.
• Summer 1947:
The first 1,500 copies of Anne's diary are published in
Amsterdam.