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Anne in Switzerland
Miep Gies on Fritz Pfeffer
The van Pels family
Peter van Pels
A boy from Peter’s neighbourhood
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Margot in the sun
Margot's 15th birthday
Margot's report
Jetteke Frijda on Margot
Opekta label
Miep Gies on Johannes Kleiman
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In the office
Victor Kugler, director
Otto Frank talks about a round-up
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A new country

In 1933 Otto and Edith Frank decide to leave Germany. Otto has the chance to set up his own business in Amsterdam. Otto goes to the Netherlands in the summer, while Edith travels back and forth and searches for a house in Amsterdam. Margot and Anne stay with their grandmother Holländer in Aachen. From February 1934 the whole family are reunited in Amsterdam.

Anne goes to a Montessori school, because her parents think that their teaching methods suit Anne. In the first years Anne is often ill, but she likes school. Margot goes to a different primary school. She is a quick learner. Margot and Anne soon make new friends. Some of them are from Germany like themselves.

Homesick

Otto Frank is very busy with his business. He sells Opekta, an ingredient used in home-made jam. He soon needs to take on extra employees: Miep Gies and Victor Kugler. Later Hermann van Pels and Johannes Kleiman also come to work for the company. Edith takes care of the housework. She feels homesick for Germany. But they cannot go back.

Terrible news

Through Miep Gies Anne’s parents meet Fritz Pfeffer and his fiancée Charlotte Kaletta. They escaped from Germany after Kristallnacht, the ‘Night of Broken Glass’. They bring terrible news: synagogues have been destroyed and thousands of Jewish men are confined in concentration camps.
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Today: 7 September 2010
Then: 6 September 1944

Arrival of the people from the secret annexe at Auschwitz. Hermann van Pels is killed soon afterwards in the gas chamber.

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