Anne Frank A young Jewish girl, who spent two years hiding together with seven other people in the secret annex in Amsterdam during the Second World War, became a symbol of hope for all the people who suffered during the Holocaust. Anne Frank's childhood is captured in the diary she wrote while in hiding, following the discovery of her and her family, creating the symbol the world has come to understand as hope. Even though the story of Anne Frank happened more than 60 years ago, the world still remembers the story of the 13-year-old. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His parents were Otto and Edith Frank, along with an older sister named Margot. Around the time Anne was born, Germany was going through a crisis. An economic crisis brought poverty and unemployment (Metselaar 15). A politician named Adolf Hitler thought he could solve problems, but Hitler and his party, the NSDAP, were anti-Semitic, meaning they hated Jews and blamed them for all the problems Germany was going through at that time. (Metsalaar 16) Anne lived in Frankfurt until the age of four because they were Jewish. His father had to emigrate to Holland in 1933, where he became CEO of the Butch Opekta Company. In April Hitler and his government began to discriminate against Jews. Jewish teachers and civil servants were fired. At school, Jewish children were bullied and called names. Otto and Edith Frank have decided to leave Germany. They weren't the only ones. Thousands of people, Hitler's political opponents, artists, and scientists, including many Jews, fled Germany (Metselaar 34). After May 1940 the happy times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation, then the arrival of the Germans, and then the troubles for the Jews began. Our freedom has been severely limited by a