Frank, Anne

Cultural  

1. A teenage Dutch Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two years in World War II. She lived with her family and several friends in a secret apartment in a warehouse in Amsterdam until they were discovered by the Nazis in 1944. She was then sent to a concentration camp where she died of typhus. Anne Frank's story of her experiences was published after the war as The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Example Sentences

While “A Small Light” has moments of levity and snippets of life’s mundanity despite the war raging outside, the episodes gradually become more intense, leading up to the inevitable betrayal that doomed all the people in the annex except for Otto Frank, Anne’s father.

From New York Times

Still, he must have known that exposing the hidden Jews would put their lives in mortal danger — and indeed, Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was the only one to survive.

From Washington Post

Schloss and her mother survived Auschwitz, but her father and brother were killed, while Otto Frank, Anne’s father, was the only survivor of his immediate family and married Schloss’ mother after the war.

From Washington Times

The impulse to be outraged on Anne Frank’s behalf isn’t in fact aimed at protecting Anne Frank; Anne Frank, as we know, is beyond protection.

From Slate

Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only family member to survive the war.

From BBC