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an anonymous tip; the identity of their betrayer remains unknown to this day. The
residents of the Secret Annex were shipped off to Camp Westerbork, a concentration
camp in north-east Netherlands. They arrived by passenger train on 8 August 1944.
They were transferred to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in the middle of the
night on 3 September 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz, the men and the women were
separated. After several months of hard labour, hauling heavy stones and grass mats,
Anne and Margot were again transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
in Germany. Their mother was not allowed to go with them. She fell ill and died at
Auschwitz shortly thereafter. At Bergen-Belsen, food was short, sanitation was awful
and diseases ran rampant. Anne Frank and her sister came down with typhus in early
spring and died within a day of each other sometime in early March, only a few weeks
before Russian soldiers liberated the camp. Anne Frank was just 15 years old at the
time of her death, one of more than one million Jewish children who died in The
Holocaust. Otto Frank was the only member of his immediate family to survive. At
the end of the War, he returned home to Amsterdam, searching desperately for news
of his family. On 18 July 1945, he met the two sisters who had been with Anne and
Margot at Bergen-Belsen and passed on the tragic news of their deaths. Nevertheless,
what Otto did find upon his return to Amsterdam was Anne Frank’s diary, which
had been saved by Miep Gies. He eventually gathered the strength to read it and was
awestruck by what he discovered. ‘There was revealed a completely different Anne
to the child that I had lost,’ wrote Otto in a letter to his mother. ‘I had no idea of the
depths of her thoughts and feelings.’ He sought to have selections from his daughter’s
diary published as a book, and The Secret Annex: Diary Letters from June 14, 1942 to
August 1, 1944 was published on 25 June 1947. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,
as it is typically called in English, has since been published in countless languages and
editions. The diary has also been adapted for the stage and screen many times over,
all across the world. It remains one of the most moving and widely read first-hand
accounts of the Jewish experience during The Holocaust. Anne Frank’s diary endures
not only because of the remarkable events she described, but also because of her

extraordinary gifts as a storyteller and her unbreakable spirit through even the most
horrific of circumstances.

On the basis of your reading of the passage given above, answer the
following questions.

a. When was Anne Frank born?

i. 15 June 1929 ii. 13 June 1928 iii. 12 June 1929 iv. 12 June 1928

b. When did the German army invade the Netherlands?

i. 10 May 1940 ii. 12 May 1940 iii. 13 March 1940 iv. 15 March 1940

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