CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Anne Frank, in full Annelies Marie Frank, (born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt am Main, Germany-died February/March 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hannover), Jewish girl whose diary of her family’s two years in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands became a classic of war literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reading the diary of Anne Frank, we get to know her mother Edith Frank only superficially. Who was Edith, what was she like as a mother, and what happened to her during the war? Edith Holländer was born in the German city of Aachen, close to the Dutch border, on 16 January 1900.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter and Anne fell in love. They cuddled and kissed in Peter’s room and in the attic. But after a while Anne realised that Peter would never become the friend she had hoped for.

Detailed explanation-4: -The book was published in 1947, just over five years after Anne’s thirteenth birthday, the day she had received her diary. She had come up with the title of the book herself: Het Achterhuis (The Secret Annex).

Detailed explanation-5: -Margot Frank is best known as ‘the sister of Anne’, forever standing in her shadow.