Animation of Anne Frank, the graphic biography

This animation shows extracts from the new graphic biography of Anne Frank. The biography tells the story of Anne Frank's life, and ends with the return of Otto Frank -- who was the only one of the eight people in hiding in the secret annexe to survive the Holocaust -- and the publication of Anne's diary and the opening of the Anne Frank House.The biography is published at the beginning of July in the Netherlands, later this month (Sept.) in the United States, and later this year in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

August 4th, 1944
in a house of Prinsengracht in Amsterdam

Eight people in hiding are arrested

one of them is Anne Frank

Anne Frank is born in 1929 in Germany

Her parents are Otto and Edith

and she has one sister, Margot

The Frank family is Jewish

The economic crisis is causing a lot of social unrest in Germany

resulting in the rise of Adolf Hitler's nazi party

1933 The nazies come into power

and discrimination against the Jews and crisis

Otto and Edith worried about the rise of Nazi party.

They decide to move to the Netherlands

Margot and Anne also arrived in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam, Anne attends to Montessori school

her two best friends are Sanne and Hanneli

But then, in May 1940 the German army invade The netherlands

The nazies occupy large part of it

and start to discriminate against Jews everywhere

Anne and Margot have to switch to separate Jewish schools

One restriction is followed by another

For her 13th birthday Anne receives a diary

This diary will become very important to her

Suddenly on the 5th of July 1942

a letter arrives ordering Margot to leave for a nazi labour camp

Otto and Edith have made secret colaborations to go into a hiding

Where would we go into a hiding?- Anne wonders

one of the first thing she packs is her diary

Wearing as many clothes as possible

the Franks family leave their house

The hiding place is the annex of the office of Anne's father

Otto and Anne tidy up the annex

Anne brightens up her room by sticking images to the wall

the people in hiding are helped by Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl

who all work in Otto's company

The Frank family is soon joined by three other people

Hermann and Auguste Van pels and their son Peter

Anne also welcomes Fritz Pfeffer

Fritz brings bad news

all those deportations in her diary Anne writes about life in the annex

about the arguments, which can be fierce, particularly between her and her mother

and also with Fritz there are never ending disagreements

Anne writes about her nightmares

and the fear of all in the annex to be discovered

In the second year of hiding Anne and Pete fall in love

on the 4th of August something terrible happens

They have been betrayed. They are arrested