Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in
Frankfurt, Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank, and her father,
Otto Frank, was a lieutenant in the German Army during World War
I who later became a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands.
Anne Frank had a sister named Margot, three years her senior.
The Franks moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the fall of
1933. Anne Frank described the circumstances of her family's
emigration years later in her diary: "Because we're Jewish, my
father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the
managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which
manufactures products used in making jam." After years of
enduring anti-Semitism in Germany, the Franks were relieved to
once again enjoy freedom in their new hometown of Amsterdam. On
Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, igniting the global
conflict that developed into World War II. On May 10, 1940, the
German army invaded the Netherlands, defeating overmatched Dutch
forces after a few days of fig