Who was Anne Frank and what happened to her? How old was Anne Frank when she was captured?

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl from Germany who became famous for keeping a diary of her experiences during the Holocaust. To avoid Nazi persecution, Anne and her family went into hiding for two years. The Diary of a Young Girl, a collection of her writings from the time, is now available.

Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on June 12, 1929. Otto and Edith Frank were her parents. Anne spent her first five years of life in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt with her parents and older sister, Margot.

Anne and her family went into hiding in the first half of July 1942. Hermann, Auguste, and Peter van Pels, as well as Fritz Pfeffer, were eventually added to the group. They lived in a secret apartment at 263 Prinsengracht Street for two years.

Anne and her sister, Margot, were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany in early November 1944 after the German SS and police discovered their hiding place on August 4, 1944. Anne was 15 years old when her family got captured.

Anne Frank died in February or March 1945, just before the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British troops on April 15, 1945. Anne Frank died when she was 15 years old. Margot Frank died in February or March 1945, at the age of 19. Anne and Margot both died of typhus.