Hitler begins the Holocaust in 1938
"Despite all that has happend, I still believe people are good at heart." Anne Frank quoted in her diary.
6 million Jews died in the holocaust. Why? Because they were Jewish. Anne Frank died as one of those 6 million Jews. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl that lived in one of the worst times in world history, which we called World War 2. She was one of the millions of people that died in a "concentration camp." A concentration camp is a place where Jews were sent when Germans rounded them up, or found them when they went into hiding. Jews that were doing harmless things, such as walking in the street going to go grocery shopping were shot by the Germans, for no reason at all. The Germans could tell if they were Jewish because each and every last one of the Jews had to wear a little star on their coat. 
Jews were transported in cattle cars and sent them to camps or there were being gassed. In the camps they were starved to death, shot, or other ways of death you do not want to even think about. Such as gasoline being put on them, and then setting them afire. There was also something called 'Hostages'. People (Meaning Jews) were taken prisoners while they waited for their executions.
Diary Entries
"Despite all that has happend, I still believe people are good at heart."
"I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end."--February 3, 1944
"...but the minute I was alone I knew I was going to cry my eyes out. I slid to the floor in my nightgown and began by saying my prayers, very fervently. Then I drew my knees to my chest, lay my head on my arms and cried, all huddled up on the bare floor. A loud sob brought me back down to earth..."--April 5, 1944
"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed."--October 9, 1942
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.'"--October 9, 1942 "All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they 'sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order." Eighty percent have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty will be severe. Any student refusing to sign will be sent to a German labor camp."--May 18, 1943
"Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and Jews."--October 9, 1942 
"A voice within me is sobbing, "You see, that's what's become of you. You're surounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don't listen to the advice on your own better half." Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I am putting ons new act and I have to save myslef with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowl movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and finally end up and turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside, and the good part inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if...if only there were no other people in the world. Yours, Anne M. Frank
After the War and about her Diary
Anne Frank had written in her diary from June 12, 1942, to August 1, 1944. Anne Frank recieved her diary for her 13th birthday on June 12, 1944. The last entry (above) was entered on August 1st, 3 days before the arrest. On the morning of August 4, 1944, sometime between ten and ten-thirty, a car pulled up at 263 Prinsengracht. Many figures emerged from the car into the facotry: an SS sergant, Karl Josef Silberbauer, in full uniform, and at the least three Dutch members of the Security Police armed but civilian clothes. Someone must have tipped them off. They arrested 8 people hiding in the secret annex Anne had been living in. 
They also arrested two of the Frank's helpers, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleimen. They did not arrest Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl. The police took all the valuables and cash they could find in the annex. Kugler escaped his imprisonment on March 28, 1945, when he and his fellow prisoners were being sent to Germany as forced laborers. He immigrated to Canada in 1955 and died in 1989. Miep is still living in Amsterdam; her husband though died in 1993. Hermann van Pels (van Daan) was gassed to death; Auguste was sent to many concentration camps, and they are certain she did not survive. But the death of her is unknown. Peter van Pels (son of Hermann and Auguste) was forced to take part of the January 16, 1945 death march. He died on May 5, 1945, 3 days before the camp was liberated. Albery Dussel died on December 20, 1944. Edith Frank (mother of Margot and Anne) died in Auschewitz-Birkenau from hunger and exhaustion on January 6, 1945. Typhus Epidemic broke that winter of 1944-1945. Because of the conditions, thousnads of prisoners. This included Margot, and a few days later Anne died. Otto Frank was the only one from the secret annex that survived, and he too, died in 1980. His daughters dream was to have her diary published. He did his daughters dream, and to this very day and many years from now is one of the most popular books to be read world wide- language to language people read Anne's book.
All these Jews died. And for what? They were Jewish, and a crazy man blammed them for doing wrong. That led him to kill over 3,500,000 Jews. Just because they were Jewish... just because they were Jewish.
The war ends- It is 1945.
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