She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12 1929. She was born in Frankfurt Germany to Otto and Edith Frank. First the first five years of her life she lived with her parents and her older sister Margot, in an apartment in the outskirts of Frankfurt.After the Nazi's took over in 1933 Otto packed up and moved to the Netherlands where he had business connections. His family had followed him little by little. Anne was the last to arrive there in 1934 after living with her grandparents in Aachen.For her 13th birthday on 12 June 1942, Anne Frank received a book she had shown her father in a shop window a few days earlier. Although it was a autograph  book, bound with red-and-white checkered cloth.While many of her early entries relate the mundane aspects of her life, she also discusses some of the changes that had taken place in the Netherlands since the German occupation. In her entry dated 20 June 1942, she lists many of the restrictions that had been placed upon the lives of the Dutch Jewish population, and also notes her sorrow at the death of her grandmother earlier in the year.[15] Frank dreamed about becoming an actress. She loved watching movies, but the Dutch Jews were forbidden access to movie theaters from 8 January 1941 onwards.Anne Frank started at the Montessori School in 1934, and throughout the rest of the 1930s she lived a relatively happy and normal childhood. Frank had many friends, Dutch and German, Jewish and Christian, and she was a bright and inquisitive student.
